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countable and uncountable, plural cubisms
(often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. quotations examples
Matisse coined the name Cubism as a derisive joke.
2003 March 3, The New Yorker
A few recall that, in 1908, he [Matisse] inspired the coinage of the term “cubism,” in disparagement of a movement that would eclipse his leading influence on the Parisian avant-garde.
2005 August 29, The New Yorker, page 78