CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/31/2024

Happy New Year from Artbook | D.A.P.

At the dawn of the new year, we find ourselves looking back at Robert Delaunay’s luminous 1930 painting Circular Forms, reproduced from Harmony and Dissonance, published by Guggenheim Museum to accompany its current sleeper blockbuster on the Orphist movement in Paris, 1910–1930. Championed by the great French poet Guillaume Apollinaire for its movement away from Cubism towards an abstraction that he perceived as “physically and spiritually unlimited,” Orphism radiates positivity to us even now, through its “transcendent qualities of light and color, and its expression of inner authenticity, dynamism, harmony and simultaneity,” in the words of essayist and Guggenheim curator Tracey Bashkoff.