cubism

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cubism — 名詞

1. A way of making paintings and sculptures that began in the early 1900s. Artists

1.名詞B2
釋義

立體派

20世紀初的藝術風格,用幾何圖形表現物體

A way of making paintings and sculptures that began in the early 1900s. Artists working in this style break objects, people, and scenes into simple geometric shapes — squares, triangles, circles — and show them from several viewpoints at once, rather than trying to create a realistic single image.

例句

Picasso and Braque developed cubism in Paris, using basic shapes to show people and objects.

Picasso 和 Braque 在巴黎發展出立體派,用基本形狀來表現人物和物體。

developed cubism + using [shapes] to [purpose]

The art teacher explained that cubism shows different views of one object at once.

美術老師解釋說,立體派同時呈現同一個物體的多個不同視角。

that-clause explaining a concept

同義詞
  • abstract art

    broader category; cubism is one specific movement within abstract art

  • modernism

    broader cultural movement; cubism is a part of early modernist art

  • geometric abstraction

    emphasises the use of geometric shapes, though not all geometric abstraction is cubist

反義詞
  • realism

    realism aims to show subjects exactly as they appear in daily life, while cubism distorts and fragments them

常見錯誤

That abstract painting is cubism.
That painting uses cubist techniques, but cubism is a specific art movement from the early 1900s.
💡Cubism is not a label for any non-realistic artwork; it refers to a particular style with clearly defined historical origins and methods.