In a manner related to or characteristic of cubism, an art movement where artists broke objects into geometric shapes and showed them from multiple viewpoints at once.
From cubism (early 1900s French movement) + -ically (adverbial suffix). Cubism comes from 'cube,' reflecting how artists reduced forms to basic geometric shapes. The suffix -ically converts adjectives to adverbs meaning 'in the manner of.'
Artists like Picasso and Braque revolutionized how humans see reality by painting cubistically—showing a guitar from the top, front, and side simultaneously, challenging our assumption that art must look photographic.
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