Cubism is an art style where objects are broken into geometric shapes, like cubes and triangles, and shown from several angles at once. It often looks fragmented, sharp, and abstract.
From *cube* plus the artistic suffix *-ism*, inspired by critics who mocked early works as just made of “little cubes.” Artists like Picasso and Braque turned that insult into the name of a whole movement.
Cubism tried to show that our eyes never see just one flat view of something—we move, remember, and imagine all at once. It’s like a visual remix of reality, stacking different angles and times into a single image.
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