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, ...

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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 which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture. Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...

, in which he emphasized

cylindrical A cylinder () has traditionally been a Solid geometry, three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a Prism (geometry), prism with a circle as its base. A cylinder may ...

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

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*Néret, Gilles (1993). ''F. Léger''. New York: BDD Illustrated Books. *Buck, Robert T., et al. (1982). ''Fernand Léger''. New York: Abbeville. Cubism {{art-movement-stub