Orphism (art)

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Orphism (art)

Orphism or Orphic cubism, is a term coined by the French

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
poet

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary de Waz-Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a France poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother....
in 1912. He used the French term Orphisme to label the paintings of Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay was a French artist who used Orphism , which is similar to abstract art, abstraction and cubism in his work. Delaunay concentrated on Orphism, while his later works were more abstract art, reminiscent of Paul Klee....
, relating them to Orpheus

Orpheus

Orpheus was a legendary figure, probably from Thracian origin, venerated by the Greeks and Thracians of the Classical age as a chief among poets and musicians, and the perfector of the lyre invented by Hermes....
, the poet and symbol of the arts of song and the lyre

Lyre

The lyre is a string instrument well known for its use in classical antiquity and later. The recitations of the Ancient Greece were accompanied by lyre playing....
in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
. The term may also be used in reference to the paintings of Delaunay's wife, Sonia Terk and to the Czech

Czech people

Czechs are a West Slavs people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, United States, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries....
painter, František Kupka

František Kupka

Franti?ek Kupka was a Czech Republic Painting and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the Abstract art and orphic cubism ....
along with other members of the Puteaux Group.

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Orphism or Orphic cubism, is a term coined by the French

France

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire

Robert Delaunay

Orpheus

Lyre

The lyre is a string instrument well known for its use in classical antiquity and later. The recitations of the Ancient Greece were accompanied by lyre playing....
in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Czech people

František Kupka

Section d'Or

The Section d'Or , also known as Groupe de Puteaux or Puteaux Group and based in the Paris suburb of Puteaux, was a collective of Painting and critics associated with an offshoot of Cubism known as Orphism ....
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Founded by Jacques Villon

Jacques Villon

Jacques Villon was a French cubist painter and printmaker....
, the orphists were rooted in cubism

Cubism

Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature....
but moved toward a pure lyrical abstraction, seeing painting as the bringing together of a sensation of bright colors. The movement influenced artists such as Patrick Henry Bruce

Patrick Henry Bruce

Patrick Henry Bruce was an American cubism painter.A descendant of Patrick Henry, Bruce was born in Campbell County, Virginia, the second of four children....
and Andrew Dasburg

Andrew Dasburg

Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism"....
as well as members of the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
Blaue Reiter group and the Canadian

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
and American

United States

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Synchromist

Synchromism

Synchromism was an art movement founded in 1912 by United States of America artists Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell.Synchromism is based on the idea that color and sound are similar phenomena, and that the colors in a painting can be orchestrated in the same harmonious way that a composer arranges notes in a symphony....
movement. The movement is seen as key in the evolution of Cubism to Abstraction. More concerned with the expression and significance of sensation, this movement retained recognisable subjects but was absorbed by increasingly abstract structures.

Orphism aimed to gradually dispense with recognisable subject matter and to rely on form and colour alone to communicate meaning. The movement also aimed to express the ideals of Simultanism-the existence of an infinitude of interrelated states of being.