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2024
Orphism
Orphism
English
Proper noun
Orphism
A
religious
movement
in
antiquity
, supposed to have been founded by Orpheus.
(
art
)
A minor
Cubist
art movement
focusing on pure
abstraction
and bright colours.
Etymology
Orpheus
+
-ism
; art sense coined by
Guillaume Apollinaire
.
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