Orphism or Orphic cubism, is a term coined in 1912 France by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. He used the French term Orphisme to label the paintings of Robert Delaunay, relating them to Orpheus, the poet and symbol of the arts of song and the lyre in Greek mythology. The term may also be used in reference to the paintings of Delaunay's wife, Sonia Terk and to the Czech painter, Frantisek Kupka along with other members of the Puteaux Group. Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic. ... Robert Delaunay was a french artist who used abstractism and cubism in his work. ... The head of Orpheus, from an 1865 painting by Gustave Moreau. ... A lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. ... // Greek mythology consists of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... Sonia Delaunay-Terk (Sonia Terk Stern) (1885 – 1979) Born in Gradizhsk, Ukraine as Sonia Terk, and grew up in St. ... František Kupka (September 23, 1871 - June 24, 1957) was a Czech painter. ... The Puteaux Group is the name applied to a group of European artists and critics associated with Cubism but because of their unique style, were branded a Cubist offshoot called Orphism. ...
Founded by Jacques Villon, the orphists were rooted in cubism 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 and Andrew Dasburg as well as members of the GermanBlaue Reiter group and the Canadian and AmericanSynchromist 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 astract structures. Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 - June 9, 1963) was a French Cubist painter and printmaker. ... Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubist house in Prague Cubism is usually regarded as the most important and influential art movement since the Italian Renaissance; it was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. ... Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of expressionist artists that was established in Munich in 1911. ... Airplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange. ...
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 existance of an infinitude of interrelated states of being.
With her husband, she developed orphism, a movement that strove for the harmonious mixture of colors.
The practitioners and adherents of fauvism, cubism, and orphism all belonged to the school of Paris, as well as many artists...
...brilliant patterns of fauvism (1905-8), dominated by Matisse and Rouault in France, the orphism of Robert Delaunay and Frank Kupka, and the explosive hues of the...
Orphism is unlike most religious traditions we have studied ---it had no fixed sites, no sanctuaries or temples, no cult statues.
Orphism had a distinctive message that was meant for the individual and was universal, ideas not popular in an era when worship was communal and the gods were tied to particular locations and to the various city states (Guthrie 250-51).
Though Orphism shared some elements with other movements like the Elusinian mysteries and the cult of Mithras, notably the focus on the afterlife and the idea of rebirth, it differed from them in many respects, requiring study of complicated dogma and adoption of a rigidly ascetic lifestyle.
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