Epitaph vs Cubism - What's the difference?
epitaph | cubism |
An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
* Bishop Hall
To commemorate by an epitaph.
* G. Harvey
(often, capitalized) An artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.
* 2003 , The New Yorker , 3 March,
* 2005 , The New Yorker , 29 Aug, p. 78,
As nouns the difference between epitaph and cubism
is that epitaph is an inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased while cubism is an artistic movement in the early 20th Century characterized by the depiction of natural forms as geometric structures of planes.As a verb epitaph
is to write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.epitaph
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The common in their speeches epitaph upon him "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
- Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.
See also
* eulogy – oration about the dead, often at funeral * obituary – published writing on the dead * epigraph – quote on a tombstonecubism
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Alternative forms
* CubismNoun
(wikipedia cubism) (-)- Matisse coined the name Cubism as a derisive joke.
- A few recall that, in 1908, he [Matisse] inspired the coinage of the term “cubism,” in disparagement of a movement that would eclipse his leading influence on the Parisian avant-garde.
