different between cubism vs renaissance

English

Alternative forms

• Cubism

Etymology

From French cubisme. One story is that, in 1908, as a new canvas by Braque was being carried past, someone said, “Encore des cubes! assez de cubisme!”. The quotations below ascribe the coinage to Matisse. Sometimes attributed to French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who popularized the term.

See also the word cube (from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek ????? (kúbos)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kju?.b?z.?m/

Noun

cubism (countable and uncountable, plural cubisms)

1. (often capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes. [from 1900s]
   • 2003, The New Yorker, 3 March,

   • 2005, The New Yorker, 29 Aug, p. 78,

Related terms

• cubist
• cubistic
• cubistically

Translations

Further reading

• cubism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cubisme.

Noun

cubism n (uncountable)

1. cubism

Declension

English

Etymology

From French renaissance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ne?s(?)ns/, /???ne?s??ns/, /???ne?s??(n)s/, /???n??s??(n)s/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /???n??s?ns/, /???n??s?ns/

Noun

renaissance (plural renaissances)

1. A rebirth or revival.
2. (historic) Alternative form of Renaissance

Derived terms

• See Renaissance (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Anagrams

• Necessarian, necessarian

French

Etymology

From renaître +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.n?.s??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

renaissance f (plural renaissances)

1. rebirth, renaissance

Further reading

• “renaissance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• encasernais, enracinasse