cubism - n - A style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.
(I know I'm not being very systematic in my art presentation.)
Probably the most famous example is Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, displayed at the 1913 New York Armory exhibition. In my opinion, fine art has never recovered from the cubists; they paved the way for the outrageously overrated Picasso, Kandinsky, Pollock, and too many others to list.
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okay, that looks NOTHING like a nude walking down a stair case. It took me a while to even find the staircase! Cubism is an interesting art form though. The (IMHO) best ones I have seem are more like a mosaic which loses it's form on close inspection, but when viewed from a distance comes into focus. Or perhaps I'm thinking of pixilation (sp?)
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