Tubism is a term coined by the art critic
Louis Vauxcelles
Louis Vauxcelles (born Louis Meyer; 1 January 187021 July 1943) was a French art critic. He is credited with coining the terms '' Fauvism'' (1905) and ''Cubism'' (1908). He used several pseudonyms in various publications: Pinturrichio, Vasari, ...
in
1911
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to describe the style of French artist
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...
. Meant as derision, the term was inspired by Léger's idiosyncratic version of
Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
, in which he emphasized
cylindrical
A cylinder (from ) has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base.
A cylinder may also be defined as an infini ...
shapes. The style was developed by Léger in his paintings of 1909–1919, such as ''Nudes in the Forest'' (1909–10) and ''Soldiers Playing Cards'' (1917).
[Buck et al., 1982, 31]
References
Bibliography
*Néret, Gilles (1993). ''F. Léger''. New York: BDD Illustrated Books.
*Buck, Robert T., et al. (1982). ''Fernand Léger''. New York: Abbeville.
Cubism
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