a 20th-cent. art movement that abandoned perspective represented from a single viewpoint by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously through the device of interlocking planes
Cubism was the decisive movement in early 20th-cent. art. Picasso and Braque, the two key cubists – ‘like climbers roped together’ – abandoned the perspective box of post-Renaissance painting. In its place, they substituted forms and space constructed out of angular planes and facets, flattened against the picture plane. From this novel method of building a picture much modernist art developed — Martin Gayford
cubist adj
cubist noun
cubistic /kyoohʹbistik/ adj
[French cubisme, from cube (see cube1) + -isme -ism]