Example sentences for: cubism

How can you use “cubism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the summer of 1916, Strand went off to his family's country house in Twin Lakes, Conn., and there he decided to take on the Cubism of Picasso and Braque using available materials.

  • He took elements from the major 20 th -century schools of art--Cubism, but also Futurism, Neoclassicism, and Surrealism--and forged his own peculiar idiom, one that seemed as racy and street-smart as slang.

  • After a trip to Italy, on which he saw the frescoes from the Italian Renaissance, he dropped Cubism for what soon became his well-known mural painting.

  • Here, if in any one place, modern art was born: Picasso, Braque, and Juan Gris developed Cubism; Modigliani painted in a style all his own; and Apollinaire wrote his first surrealistic verses.

  • The collections, regularly rotated from the 45,000 works in reserve, range from the Fauves and Cubism to Abstract Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and all the breakaway factions and reactions which followed them.


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