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themselves the forerunners of another revolution to
come and which will go further: the abstract.
There is still too much exterior reality in these
revolutions of fauvism. cubism. etc. but not enough
of the pure spirit. One must cast off all the anchors and
sail to the unknown. an unknown which deserves its
name and which. contrary to what one would have
expected, is not the void, but proves rich in incalculable
possibilities.
'When one has·, writes Kupka in this important text,
'acknowledged the impossibility of grasping the real
characteristics of the aspects of nature by the means
of the painter, when one has recognised also the error
of the fantasy interpretation (continuation of the old

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naiveties) one does not find oneself, as one could
believe it, in front of an open void'.
No, this void, on the contrary, fills up with forms,
colours and rhythms, and the artist truly feels himself
existing in terms of creator. or if one wants other terms
in their expressive fulness, as a demiurge, as a poet.
Apollinaire. in front of these works and in front of
those of Oelaunay, found another term, which well
expressed all this. This particular tendency of cubism
and which was going beyond cubism, he christened
1 'Orphisme' and the powers concretely, manifestly,
Study for 'A Story of P1s11/s and
Stamens' 1918/19 creative, constructive and edifying of genius are
Gouache
27.5 x 24 cm, included in this term. Something else is also included
Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris in it and which is called: music. Forms surge forth,
2 construct themselves, they arrange themselves and
Effervescence 1 911 combine themselves and compose themselves and
Gou ache
12¼ X 1 2;i in. this takes place. melodiously, in tempo, according to a
Gimpel Fils, London universal harmony which is just as much that of
3 geometry as that of the notes of sonorous vibrations.
Architecture Ph,Josophique 1 91 3 It is to the sound of the flute that the stones of the
143 x 112 cm,
Galerie Louis Carre, Paris peaceful cities assemble themselves and one is not
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