Example sentences for: cubists

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

  • He fell in with the Cubists, whose reverence for Cézanne's Formalist innovations--depicting landscape and figures with interlocking planes--he shared.

  • It is likely that one's taste deteriorates under the continuous barrage of vulgarity: many who today admire the dadaists, cubists, surrealists, hard-edge realists, nonobjective and abstract artists would have reviled them, along with a significant percentage of the population, had they been dalive when their paintings first appeared, just as staid, conservative critics condemned the impressionists and advocates of other nouvelles vagues . Is it that we gradually become accustomed to what we first perceive as trash--as vulgarity--and become inured to it, or that we come to understand and, if not enamored of it, at least tolerate it as a legitimate form of expression?

  • Watching young Cubists bring the techniques of painting to the forefront, she assigned herself to write "portraits" of her friends that did the same thing for literature.

  • Cubists are represented by Picasso (including Mother and Child, from his Blue Period) and Braque.


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