Word: orphism
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...this, as the show reveals, is not altogether true. He was a consistent artist but a very eclectic one as well, and one of the things that endears him to the Postmodernist temper is the way that traces of practically all the early 20th century movements, from Fauvism and Orphism to Cubism and even Surrealism, turn up in his work--not as a mishmash of quotes but as integrated elements. There's even a bow to Dada in a peculiar picture from 1930 in which the Mona Lisa shares billing with a can of sardines and a large bunch...
Bouncier than Bach. That poetic arbiter of artistic taste, Apollinaire, promptly dubbed Kupka's work "Orphism," and paired him with the French colorist Robert Delaunay. Although he rejected the association, Kupka churned out whorls of saturated color, dazzling fingerprints of the spectrum. With his paintpots, he set cubism on fire...
...with a fellow American, Morgan Russell, he worked out basic principles of an abstract style, based on scientific color theories, which he called "Synchromy." The results' first shown in 1913, were curving, intersecting volumes of light, which today take their place on the artistic map, alongside the "Orphism" of French Painter Robert Delaunay and Italian futurist studies of forms in motion, as feeder streams into the main current of 20th century...
...flag and proclaimed a new ism. Impressionism and neoImpressionism held that artists should paint with prismatic colors, imitating the effect of light. Synthetism held that they should not. Fauvism held that artists should paint flat, abstract decorations; Cubism, that the subject should be broken up into planes. Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism...
...King's Chapel Lecture on "The Quest of Salvation in the Greek and Roman World. I. Orphism, Pythagoreanism and the Greek Mysteries," by Professor C. H. Moore, in King's Chapel, Boston...