Orphism or Orphic Cubism is a school of visual art which was an offshoot of Cubism and focused on pure abstraction and bright colors. The term was coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 19
Robert Delaunay (1912) Simultaneous Windows on the City Kunsthalle Hamburg
František Kupka (1912-1913) Katedrála (The Cathedral) oil on canvas, 180 x 150 cm, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
Sonia Delaunay (1914) Prismes électriques, oil on canvas, 250 x 250 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou Paris
Robert Delaunay (1911) Champs de Mars: The Red Tower Art Institute of Chicago
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and archit
Orphism (art)
…Orphism or Orphic Cubism is a school of visual art which was an offshoot of Cubism and focused on pure abstraction and bright colors. The term was coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912. Orphism was influenced by…
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, considered to be a major step towards the founding of the Cubist movement
Pablo Picasso, 1909–10, Figure dans un Fauteuil (Seated Nude, Femme nue assise), oil on canvas, 92.1 × 73 cm, Tate Modern, London
Albert Gleizes, L'Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud), 1912, oil on canvas, 195.6 × 114.9 cm (77 × 45 1/4 in.), Philadelphia Museum of Art. Completed the same year that Albert Gleizes co-authored the book Du "Cubisme" with Jean Metzinger. Exhibited at Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1912, Armory Show, New York, Chicago, Boston, 1913.