Orphism

English

Orpheus +‎ -ism; art sense coined in 1912 by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918).

Orphism

(religion, Ancient Greece) A religious movement in antiquity, supposed to have been founded by Orpheus.
- 1974, The Emerson Society Quarterly, Issues 74-81, Emerson Society, page 125,
  Thoreau's acquaintance with Orphism dated from at least as early as the summer of 1840, when he read Ralph Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe and took notes on some of Cudworth's references to the Orphic religion.
- 1995, Dan Urman, Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher, Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery, Part 2, E. J. Brill, page 355,
  The oracular poems produced by Orphism and attributed to Orpheus himself, similarly reveal neither messiah nor messianic age.
- 2010, Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, De Gruyter, page 295,
  The apologists' strategies distort the real image of Orphism, but they maintain a certain basis in reality in order to appear plausible.
(art) A minor Cubist art movement focusing on pure abstraction and bright colours.
Synonym: Orphic cubism

religious movement

art movement