1. Artists who practice or advocate cubism, an early 20th-century art movement that depicts subjects from multiple viewpoints simultaneously, breaking them into geometric forms.
Usage: Plural of cubist; typically refers to painters and sculptors associated with the movement; Often capitalized when referring to the historical movement

Examples

• Picasso and Braque were among the most famous cubists of the early 1900s.
• The cubists revolutionized art by rejecting realistic perspective.
• Many cubists experimented with collage and mixed media in their work.
• The museum's exhibition featured paintings by influential cubists from Paris.
• Cubists believed that showing multiple perspectives at once was more truthful than single-point perspective.
• Art historians study how cubists influenced subsequent movements like Futurism and Constructivism.