Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of abstract painting allied to futurism, developed about 1911, in which forms are depicted as emitting rays of light.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French rayonisme, from rayon, ray (translation of Russian luchizm, from luch, ray); see rayon.]
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Examples
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Larionov's manifesto on Rayonism stated that it is a synthesis of Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism.
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