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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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