different between expressionism vs cubism

English

Etymology

expression +? -ism

Noun

expressionism (countable and uncountable, plural expressionisms)

1. A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences
2. A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music

Derived terms

• abstract expressionism

Translations

Anagrams

• misexpression

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