. . . . during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, there came along two artists who would signal a return to an order based on perception and reinterpretation of form and space relations. They were Cézanne and Seurat. Seurat made a careful study of the Golden Section and of the composition of Piero della Francesca. The new vision would emerge in painting, as it had done in the fifteenth century. Degas and van Gogh made important structural-expressive contributions in their use of multiple points of view, or multiple cones of vision. Some or all of this was given rational definition and direction in Cubism (1907-1912). From Cubism it radiated immediately into abstract styles in painting and sculpture, and into architecture. Cubism reinstated the straight line, the line of rationality, and, with it, a modern geometry of form, space, and movement. [Harlan, Calvin. Vision & Invention, An Introduction to Art Fundamentals. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986.]
R E F E R E N C E S
1 Cube n [L cubus, fr. Gk kybos die, cube] [1551] 1a: the regular solid of six equal square sides -see Volume table b: something shaped like a cube [ice __] 2: the product got by taking a number three times as a factor
2 Cube adj [1570]: raised to the third power
3 Cube vt cubed; cubing [1588] 1: to raise to the third power 2: to form into a cube 3: to cut partly through [a steak] in a checkered pattern to incresase tendernress by breaking the fibers
1 Cubic adj [15c] 1: having the form of a cube: Cubical 2a: relating to the cube considered as a crystal form b: Isometrica1 3a: Three-Dimensional b: being the volume of a cube whose edge is a specified unit [__ inch] 4: of third degree, order, or power [a __ polynomial]
2 Cubic n [1799]: a cubic curve, equation, or polynomial
Cubical adj [15fc] 1: Cubic esp: shaped like a cube 2: relating to volume
Cubic equation n [ca. 1751]: a polynomial equation in which the highest sum of exponents of variables in any term is three
Cubic measure n [1660]: a unit [as cubic inch or cubic centimetter] for measuring volume -see Metric System table, Weight table
Cubit n [ME, fr. L cubitum elbow, cubit] 14c]: any of various ancient units of length based on the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger and usu. eaqual to about 18 inches [45.7 centimeters]
Cubism n. often cap [1911]: a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements esp. by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects
[Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Springfield, MA, USA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1995.]
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