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There was a short-lived movement within cubism called Orphism (the Delaunays were its main practitioners) but it remains unclear what was meant by the term "Orphism" in that context. The art looks mostly like analytic cubism with the colors turned all the way up. Here's the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphism_(art)

Is there an element of the transcendent in your conception of the Orphic? Transgressive + initiated = "we have risen above."

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I’m aware, yes; I even helped research a paper on the Delaunays in graduate school.

What I am proposing here is unrelated to them.

There is definitely an element of the transcendent to it.

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Yes; but that’s a separate matter. I jokingly offer you Enric Miralles’ "How to Lay Out a Croissant".

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