ORPHISM

a short-lived movement in art founded in 1912 by Robert Delaunay, Frank Kupka, the Duchamp brothers, and Roger de la Fresnaye. Apollinaire coined the term orphism to describe the lyrical, shimmering chromatic effects that these painters sought to introduce into the drier aesthetic of cubism. Moving toward pure abstraction, the orphists saw painting as sensation. For a time their number included Léger, Picabia, Chagall, and Gliezes. The movement influenced the German Blaue Reiter group and the American synchromists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell.

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books on: Orphism  - 493 results

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Hart Crane's Harp of Evil: A Study of Orphism in the Bridge
Book by Jack C. Wolf; Whitston, 1986
Subjects: Crane, Hart--1899-1932--Bridge, Dionysia in literature, Mother goddesses in literature, Mysteries, Religious, in literature, Mythology in literature
...like these spears leave no doubt that the Orphic strings belong to an Orphic harp. As might be expected in a poem based on Orphism and early vegetation mythology, the structure of the "Atlantis" section is based on mythological aspects of seasonal changes...
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The Greek World
Book by Anton Powell; Routledge, 1997
...more generally about the place of early Orphism in history? Its relation to Pythagoreanism...century AD though doubtless older, that Orphism was in effect invented by Onomakritos...accounts. The chronological relation of Orphism to Pherekydes and to Pythagoras is very...
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Greek Piety
Book by Martin Persson Nilsson, Herbert Jennings Rose; Clarendon Press, 1948
Subjects: Greece--Religion
...into the religious life of Greece. Orphism must not be treated by itself; it was...and are so closely connected with Orphism that it is neither possible nor justifiable to make a separation. Orphism is named after Orpheus. He is a mythical...
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From Myth to Reason?: Studies in the Development of Greek Thought
Book by Richard R. Buxton; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Mythology, Greek, Philosophy, Ancient
...492- 432 BCE was already influenced by Orphism. 45 These data point to the first quarter...modern scholarship have closely associated Orphism and Pythagoreanism. There is much to...was a movement which isolated itself, Orphism remained more or less integrated in society...
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History of New Testament Research - Vol. 2
Book by William Baird; Fortress Press, 1992
Subjects: Bible--N.T--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc--History
...single example of Hellenistic religion, Orphism. This example, he thinks, is particularly appropriate, because Orphism is a syncretistic oriental religion...with a survey of recent research on Orphism. In the course of the investigation...
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The Orphic Singer of Milton's Nativity Ode
Journal article by Christina Fawcett; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 49, 2009
Subjects: Milton, John (English poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Milton, John (English poet)--Works, Nativity Ode (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Orphism--Portrayals
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Envisioning Abstraction: the Simultaneity of Robert Delaunay's First Disk
Journal article by Gordon Hughes; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Art history, Color, Impressionism
...of modern art (Fig. 1), only one, Orphism-Guillaume Apollinaires misbegotten term...diagrammatic arrow leading from Cubism to Orphism ends in what Barr sees as the sole cul...ostensible motive for Barrs flow chart. Though Orphism is important enough to warrant mapping...
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Dialogues with Death: the Last Days of Socrates and the Buddha
Journal article by Matthew Dillon; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 50, 2000
Subjects: Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian
...C.E.?). In fact, the cult of "Orphism," of which he was the reputed founder...There is a great deal of confusion between Orphism and Pythagoreanism, partly at least because...major centers for both Pythagoreanism and Orphism. 47 The emphasis on purity is nothing...
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Rereading Breton's Debt to Apollinaire: Surrealism and Aesthetics of Creative Imaging
Journal article by Adrianna M. Paliyenko; Romance Quarterly, Vol. 42, 1995
Subjects: Romance Philology
...this identification of surrealism with orphism qualifying the notion of spontaneous association...that of Delaunay. 6 This connotation of orphism in cubist art where the juxtaposition...Apollinairean Surrealism identified with orphism in the sense specified here, Bretons...
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Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde
Journal article by Roger Cardinal; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 28, 1998
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...and 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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Previews: Three Times a Year Artforum Looks Ahead to the Coming Season. the Following Survey Previews Forty Shows Opening around the World between January and April
Magazine article by Charles Atlas; Artforum International, Vol. 48, January 2010
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Calendars, Art--Calendars, Art--Exhibitions
...as in Kiev, Odessa, and Moscow. With her firsthand knowledge of the latest aesthetic developments--Cubism, Futurism, Orphism, Suprematism, Constructivism--Exter played cultural emissary for other artists, while her own exubernant color compositions...
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Abstraction in America: The First Generation
Magazine article by Hilton Kramer; New Criterion, Vol. 18, October 1999
Subjects: Art, Abstract--History, Art, Modern--20th century, Emerson, Ralph Waldo--Influence, Hartley, Marsden--Conduct of life, Stieglitz, Alfred--Conduct of life
...attention with the modernism of the School of Paris--the Cubism of Picasso, the Fauvism of Matisse, and the so-called Orphism of Robert Delaunay, in addition to the less classifiable paintings of Henri Rousseau--as well as a miscellany of European...
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The Return of Op: With Two Major Survey Shows on Op Art Running Almost Concurrently in Europe and the United States, We Asked Contributing Editor David Rimanelli and Art Historian Sarah K. Rich to Assess the Exhibitions and Reflect on the Resurgence of Interest In-And Contemporary Resonance Of-This Long-Moribund Movement
Magazine article by David Rimanelli, Sarah K. Rich; Artforum International, Vol. 45, May 2007
Subjects: Op art--Criticism and interpretation, Op art--Exhibitions, Op art--History, Optical art--Criticism and interpretation, Optical art--Exhibitions, Optical art--History
...Impressionism and the continuation of this lineage in Fauvism, Der Blaue Reiter, and nonobjective movements such as de Stijl, Orphism, and the Bauhaus. A response means both reaction and reply; "responsive" sounds sensitive, delicately attuned to stimuli...
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The High Art of the Low
Magazine article by Herb Greer; World and I, Vol. 17, July 2002
Subjects: Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao--Exhibitions, Modern art--Exhibitions
...say historically banal list of "isms" represented here--Fauvism, Futurism, Cubism, Internationalism, Simultaneism, Orphism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and so on down a very long rank of quasi-ideologies--it becomes evident that what each...
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Color Rhythms
Magazine article by Diane Denicola Orlofsky; National Forum, Vol. 76, Summer 1996
Subjects: Art, Color
...reader to examine and differentiate between the "isms" that surrounded this brief but volatile period in art history (such as Orphism, Simultaneism, and Synchromism). The differences between these movements are actually more perception than reality, and...
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Your Guide to the Capital's Arts and Entertainment
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 1, 2005
...Bond Street Together with her husband, the French painter Robert Delauney, Sonia developed a new form of Cubism, dubbed Orphism, and went on to design for Sergei Diaghilevs Ballets Russes, as well as producing hand-painted fabrics, tapestries and...
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Futurism? It's Past It; ART
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 21, 2009
...much of the show is an art historians dream of isms, some of which you will have forgotten about long before the final room. Orphism; vorticism; cubism; Russian cubofuturism ... the trouble is that not much of this, particularly cubism, can be explored...
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Picture of the Week: Portrait of Stravinsky (1918). Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) New Art Gallery, Walsall
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 19, 2000
Subjects: Stravinsky, Igor
...deconstructed as demolished, influenced the Italian Futurists. In 1913 Delaunay moved on to his own stylistic invention, dubbed "Orphism", an exploration of prismatic colour inspired by the theories of the chemist Chevreul. His "Simultaneous Discs" and...
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Opening This Week
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 10, 2005
...There, she met and married the French painter Robert Delaunay and the pair together developed a new form of Cubism, dubbed Orphism by Apollinaire. Yet the East - in particular, Russian folk art - continued to haunt Sonias work. Later, she designed costumes...


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encyclopedia articles on: Orphism  - 8 results

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Orphism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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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School of Paris
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...is not one style; the term describes many styles and movements. The practitioners and adherents of fauvism , cubism , and orphism all belonged to the school of Paris, as well as many artists whose styles fit into no one category. After the war, when...
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Delaunay, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...g., La Ville de Paris, 1912; Musee dArt moderne, Paris). He became a major figure in the movement Apollinaire termed orphism . This amalgam of fauve color, futurist dynamism, and analytical cubism sought to emulate the rhythms but not the appearance...
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Delaunay-Terk, Sonia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...designer; wife of Robert Delaunay. Raised in St. Petersburg, she moved to Paris in 1905. With her husband, she developed orphism , a movement that strove for the harmonious mixture of colors. After World War I, her interest shifted to fashion design...
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