Tubism

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Tubism is an early 20th-century art style, associated especially with Fernand Léger, that depicts forms using cylindrical, tube-like shapes within a Cubist-influenced framework.

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Tubism canonical 1
Tubisme 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 20th-century art movement
art movement
painting style
artForm drawing
painting
artHistoricalContext European modernism
post-Cubist movements
associatedWithArtist Fernand Léger
countryOfOrigin France
developedInDecade 1910s
developedInPeriod early 20th century
distinguishedFrom Cubism
surface form: Analytical Cubism

Cubism
surface form: Synthetic Cubism
emergedFrom experiments with Cubist structure
focusesOn industrial and urban motifs
representation of modern life
hasAlternativeName Tubism
surface form: Tubisme

Tubist style
hasCharacteristic emphasis on cylindrical volume
machine-age aesthetic
simplified, monumental forms
strong structural organization
stylized representation of figures and objects
hasKeyConcept mechanization of the human figure
translation of natural forms into tubes
influenced later abstract art
machine-age aesthetics in painting
influencedBy Cubism
notableProponent Fernand Léger
relatedToMovement Cubism
Futurism
Purism
typicalSubject architectural structures
human figures
mechanical objects
still lifes
usesColor strong, often contrasting colors
usesFormalElement bold contours
cylindrical forms
geometric simplification
mechanical forms
tube-like shapes
volumetric shapes
usesTechnique fragmentation of forms
overlapping tubular elements
visualEffect architectonic composition
sense of solidity and volume

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Fernand Léger movement Tubism
Tubism hasAlternativeName Tubism
this entity surface form: Tubisme