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Word: orphism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: West Coast Pioneer | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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