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cubism

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an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes

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If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives. Georges Braque

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind. Juan Gris

Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space. Marshall McLuhan

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!' David Hockney

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. Harrison Birtwistle

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. Jacques Lipchitz

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