Definition of Cubistic

1. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic of cubism. "Cubist art"

Exact synonyms: Cubist
Partainyms: Cubism, Cubism
Derivative terms: Cubism

Definition of Cubistic

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of cubism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cubistic

1. cubism [adj] - See also: cubism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cubistic

cubiclizes
cubiclizing
cubicly
cubics
cubicula
cubicular
cubiculum
cubie
cubies
cubiform
cubilose
cubing
cubism
cubisms
cubist
cubistic (current term)
cubists
cubit
cubital
cubital bone
cubital fossa
cubital joint
cubital lymph nodes
cubital nerve
cubitals
cubiti
cubitiere
cubitieres
cubits
cubitus

Literary usage of Cubistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1920)
"... its base a segment of the earth; and the Herod curtain is a great jagged splash of crimson and red in cubistic triangles and ragged, throbbing slashes. ..."

2. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"A cubistic universe. Xenophanes said that God is a sphere. And then there are the geometrical patterns made by birds on the wing. Heaven in any religion is ..."

3. Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning by Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine (1915)
"... of a subject which, being angular in itself, lends itself admirably to cubistic treatment. Leger's method is to place in the foreground large planes ..."

4. The American Magazine of Art by American Federation of Arts (1916)
"... listic. cubistic, futuristic, or whatever you may choose to term it, seems to me. feeble and neurasthenic. The primitives and the early Egyptians with ..."

5. Ten One-act Plays by Alice Gerstenberg (1921)
"... on the stage before the entrance of the characters: "Miss Gerstenberg has written this frenzied bit of Futuristic and cubistic drama as an experiment—to ..."

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