Orphism
Artistic Movements, Periods and Styles in 5 Points
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Orphism
- It is a kind of cubism that goes towards total abstraction, where colors and light take shape and movement as if they were music. It is the representation of the rhythm that all things carry within them, the essence of life.
- The name was proposed in 1913 by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the most important theorists of the artistic avant-garde movements. He defined this new current as “the art of painting new ensembles with elements borrowed not from visual reality, but entirely created by the artist and endowed by him with a powerful reality. It is pure art.”
- Why did Apollinaire call it “Orphism”? He was referring to Orpheus, the mythological character who plays the lyre so movingly that he achieves true feats. He represents the combination of music and poetry. Precisely, the word “lyricism,” which we use as a synonym for poetry, comes from the word “lyre.”
- Orphism, besides being an antecedent of abstract painting, is also a precursor of optical art. The use of colors in simultaneous contrasts (Simultaneism) generates optical vibrations and thus produces an effect of movement.
- Robert Delaunay (the most important representative of Orphism along with his wife Sonia) explained that the idea of Orphism is “a kind of painting that would depend only on color and its contrast, but would develop over time simultaneously, and perceived at a single moment.”
Representative Artists: Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Léger, Kupka, Picabia
Image: Rythme, Joie de Vivre (1930). Robert Delaunay
Recommended links:
Paul Klee and the Journey to Tunisia.
Fundamental Differences between Analytic and Synthetic Cubism.
Characteristic Elements of Analytical Cubism.
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