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She’s not very well known but she’s the cofounder of Orphism, the art movement derived from Cubism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2020

Sonia Delaunay, who with her husband, Robert Delaunay, developed this colorful, symphonic sort of abstraction called Orphism, has an interesting history.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2019

She and her husband, Robert, founded the Orphism art movement, which incorporated strong colors and geometric shapes in unique juxtaposition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2018

Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism, Rayonism, Machinism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Purism, Concretionism�by the 19205 there were so many isms that the artists themselves got mixed up.

From Time Magazine Archive

But even in Greece we must remember the gloomy chthonian rites, and the degradations of Orphism mentioned by Plato in the Republic.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.