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Orphism
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Orphism (or Orphic Cubism). Terms coined by
Apollinaire to describe a type of painting—a development from
Cubism—practised by
Robert Delaunay and some of his associates between 1911 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The reference to Orpheus, the singer and poet of Greek mythology, reflected the desire of the artists involved to bring a new element of lyricism and colour into the austere intellectual Cubism of
Picasso,
Braque, and
Gris. Apart from Delaunay, the artists whom Apollinaire mentioned as practitioners of Orphism were
Marcel Duchamp,
Fernand Léger, and
Francis Picabia (all members of the
Section d'Or), but
František Kupka, another member of their circle, was in fact closer in style to Delaunay than these three. By 1912 both Delaunay and Kupka were painting completely non-representational pictures characterized by intensely vibrant fragmented colours. Despite its short life, Orphism was highly influential, notably on several major German painters, particularly
Klee (who visited Delaunay in 1912),
Macke, and
Marc. It was also closely related to
Synchromism.
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The poet's studio.(In the Studio)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...reminds me that I've a long way still to go. The stain of Orphism is still upon my words. Hm. My poems are written first...upon my manual typewriter, a portable Olympia (oh stain of Orphism!) I've carried around since college days. Many's the...
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Le Corbusier, Enigmatic Modernist.(Le Corbusier in Detail)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...view, the reasons for this transformation lie in the preoccupation with Orphism. No references are given for this assertion, nor is a distinction drawn between the Orphism of Apollinaire and the classical Greek cult of Orpheus. Nowhere in the...
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New Technology Probes Ancient Manuscript
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/2/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...way, it was a precursor of Christianity," Pierris said. "Orphism believed that man's salvation depended on his knowledge of...Veleni said the manuscript "will help show the influence of Orphism on later monotheistic religions." The scroll's remains...
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Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...patron of every conceivable 'ism' - Cubism, Simultanism, Orphism, Futurism, Expressionism, Imagism, Vorticism, Ultraism...playwright, the erotic novelist and the evangelist of Cubism and Orphism, not to mention the one-time suspected thief of the Mona...
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New technology probes secrets of Europe's oldest manuscript
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 6/2/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...way, it was a precursor of Christianity," Pierris said. "Orphism believed that man's salvation depended on his knowledge of...Veleni said the manuscript "will help show the influence of Orphism on later monotheistic religions." The scroll's remains...
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L'Origines d'abstraction
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 11/29/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Frantisek Kupka and some of the many artists who loosely comprised what Apollinaire in 1912 dubbed Orphism'. But the appearance of Whistler's 'Nocturne' serves, like the glimpse of a musical theme in an opening overture, to...
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS: The world of interiors
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/3/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...never put herself forward. Now a fuller picture of her importance in French art emerges, and not only in her contribution to Orphism. Lo and behold, it turns out that she lived to be one of the most sprightly new colour painters of the Sixties. The exodus...
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Q & A
Magazine article from: Poetry; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...that I should really just say no, no connection whatsoever. Aspiring, however, to the chocolaty enchantments and piercing Orphism music rules us with-aspiring, say, to the quiet sublimity of Jancek's Intimate Letters quartet, Freddie Hubbard's...
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Levelheaded mysticism: Arthur Dove at the Whitney.(Arthur Dove, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...more importantly, with the natural world. While it is possible to divine in his work traces of Futurism, Expressionism, Orphism, Klee, and Kandinsky, his art is beholden to none of them. Dove inherited modernist impulses less by direct influence...
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Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery, vol. 2.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...identifying David with Orpheus in the reredos of the synagogue at Dura Europos. He also argues that there is no connection between Orphism and messianism, and no evidence for a messianic theme in the paintings of the Dura synagogue. The second section, which...
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Orphism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Orphism (or Orphic Cubism ). Terms coined by...Apollinaire mentioned as practitioners of Orphism were Marcel Duchamp , Fernand Lé...than these three. Apollinaire described Orphism as ‘the art of painting new...
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orphism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
orphism a short-lived movement in art founded in 1912 by Robert Delaunay , Frank...Duchamp brothers, and Roger de la Fresnaye. Apollinaire coined the term orphism to describe the lyrical, shimmering chromatic effects that these painters...
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Orphic Mysteries
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Orphic Mysteries or Orphism, religious cult of ancient Greece...is essential to the understanding of Orphism. The Orphics affirmed the divine origin...could achieve eternal blessedness. Orphism stressed a strict standard of ethical...
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Synchromism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...or semi-abstract movement in painting, closely related to Orphism , founded in 1912 by Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan...most critics of the time could see little difference between Orphism and Synchromism, and the Americans were appalled to find that...
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Rayonism
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...x2018;Rayonism is a synthesis of Cubism , Futurism and Orphism ’, and Rayonist pictures do indeed combine something...Cubism, the dynamic movement of Futurism, and the colour of Orphism. The style was bound up with a very unclear theory of invisible...
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