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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

That poetic arbiter of artistic taste, Apollinaire, promptly dubbed Kupka's work "Orphism," and paired him with the French colorist Robert Delaunay.

From Time Magazine Archive

Orphism, Mythraism, Christianity, many forms of one spirit, were beginning to mean something more than curious ritual and discreet debauch.

From Art by Bell, Clive