Tubism

thumb|upright=1.2|Fernand Léger, The Railway Crossing, 1919, oil on canvas, 53.8 x 64.8 cm, [[The Art Institute of Chicago, an example of Tubism]] Tubisme is a term from the art world that carries two distinct meanings. On the one hand, it refers to a variant within cubism identified by art critic Louis Vauxcelles in 1911, in which artists such as Fernand Léger employed cylindrical, tubular, and spherical forms in vivid colors to suggest movement and dynamism. Meant as derision, the term was inspired by Léger's idiosyncratic version of cubism, in which he emphasized cylindrical 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).

On the other hand, the term denotes a painting technique attributed to Georges Mathieu, in which paint is applied directly from the tube onto the canvas.