Glass

painting by Larionov

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Glass is a painting by Mikhail F. Larionov, created around 1909. It is considered one of the earliest examples of Rayonism, an art movement he co-founded with Natalya Goncharova. Rayonism sought to represent spatial forms by depicting the crossing of reflected rays of light from various objects. Larionov described this style as a synthesis of Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism. The painting Glass was exhibited in 1912 and was instrumental in defining the principles of Rayonism, which aimed to reduce forms into rays of light. The movement was influential in the development of abstract art in Russia and largely concluded by 1914.12

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Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov
…Symbolism, but with the painting Glass (1909) he introduced a nonrepresentational style conceived as a synthesis of Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism. In the Rayonist manifesto of 1913, he asserted the principle of the reduction of form in figure and landscape compositions into rays of reflected light.
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…Symbolism, but with the painting Glass (1909) he introduced a nonrepresentational style conceived as a synthesis of Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism. In the Rayonist manifesto of 1913, he asserted the principle of the reduction of form in figure and landscape compositions into rays of reflected light.
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Rayonism
…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…
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…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…
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