Rayonism

Rayonism
Ray·on·ism (rāʹə-nĭz'əm) n.
A style of abstract painting allied to futurism, developed about 1911, in which forms are depicted as emitting rays of light.
  [French rayonisme, from rayon, ray (translation of Russian luchizm, from luch, ray). See rayon.]   Rayʹon·ist adj. & n. Ray'on·isʹtic adj.

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(from Russian, Luchizm: "ray-ism") Russian art movement founded 1912–13 by Mikhail Larionov (1881–1964) and his wife, Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), which represented one of the first steps toward the development of abstract art in Russia.

A synthesis of Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism, Rayonism was described by Larionov as "concerned with spatial forms that are obtained through the crossing of reflected rays from various objects." It apparently ended after 1914, when its founders departed for Paris.

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▪ Russian art movement
Russian  Luchism (Rayism)  

      Russian art movement founded by Mikhail F. Larionov (Larionov, Mikhail Fyodorovich), representing one of the first steps toward the development of abstract art in Russia. Larionov exhibited one of the first Rayonist works, Glass, in 1912 and wrote the movement's manifesto that same year (though it was not published until 1913). Explaining the new style, which was a synthesis of Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism, Larionov said that it “is concerned with spatial forms which are obtained through the crossing of reflected rays from various objects.”

      The raylike lines appearing in the works of Larionov and Natalya Goncharova (Goncharova, Natalya) bear strong similarities to the lines of force in Futurist paintings. Rayonism apparently ended after 1914, when Larionov and Goncharova departed for Paris.

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