These cultural tendencies, for which the French poet and playwright Guillaume Apollinaire coined the word “surrealism,” were spreading through Paris around the time Miró moved there from ...

Artistic revolutionaries of the early 20th century hoped to end fine art as a cultural institution. They wound up creating a new department.

(French poet/art critic Guillaume Apollinaire recounted the diverging vibes of the two neighborhoods by noting the passé “opium-smokers” in Montmartre, while cocaine’s pace was more ...

Poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who christened the movement, wrote that one of the qualities of Orphic art should be to produce “untroubled aesthetic pleasure”—a statement that could be ...

Attendees included Picasso, poets Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob, and American siblings Leo and Gertrude Stein. A well-known photo of Rousseau shows him seated in front of “The Merry ...

But the Delaunays called themselves “Simultanists,” and would criticize the poet-critic Guillaume Apollinaire, who minted the Orphism label, for not getting them.

French poet Guillaume Apollinaire provided Orphism with its name and emphasized its subjective perspective. Orphism was “the art of painting new totalities with elements that the artist does not ...

The French poet and art critic Wilhelm Apolinary Kostrowicki had a knack for names, starting with his own nom de plume, Guillaume Apollinaire. Born in Rome to Polish parents, he arrived in Paris ...

Though Laurencin’s most famous love affair was with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, her longest relationship was with her housekeeper, Suzanne Moreau, whom she adopted several years before her ...

Orphism, the short-lived movement led by Sonia and Robert Delaunay, was an offshoot of Cubism, inspired by color and rhythm.