Trend in Cubism that gave priority to colour.
Its name, bestowed in 1912 by Orpheus but the Symbolist painters' description of {{link=Gauguin, Eug%C3%A8ne-Henri- Paul">Paul Gauguin 's use of colour as "Orphic art." Among the painters who worked in this style were Robert Delaunay , Fernand Léger , Francis Picabia , and Marcel Duchamp . The best-known example is Delaunay's abstract Simultaneous Composition: Sun Disks (1912–13), in which superimposed circles of colour have their own rhythm and movement.