Word: futurist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked out basic principles of an abstract style, based on scientific color theories, which he called "Synchromy." The results' first shown in 1913, were curving, intersecting volumes of light, which today take their place on the artistic map, alongside the "Orphism" of French Painter Robert Delaunay and Italian futurist studies of forms in motion, as feeder streams into the main current of 20th century...
...musical explorations of Igor Stravinsky, e.g., The Rite of Spring, once got him branded as a wild-eyed futurist. Long since overtaken on the innovation front, he has for many years now been burrowing back into the musical past-but as an explorer still...
...gaunt, grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted. "When I look at my drawings of 1877 I find cubist angles, futurist explosions, impressionist flakings, dada knights and constructivist structures." Some Ensor followers: Swiss Paul Klee, Russian Marc Chagall, Belgian Paul Delvaux...