Rayonism
レイヨニスム / 1912–1914 / Style / Russian Avant-garde
A Russian abstraction that declared its subject to be not objects themselves but the crossing of light rays reflected from them. Sharp diagonal bundles of lines intersect, dissolving the object into an interference pattern of light. It marked the point where Russian abstraction broke away from Cubism.
Sharp bundles of diagonal lines / Planes formed where lines intersect / Disappearance of the object's contour / Layering of a restricted palette
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Kinetic-feeling key visuals for events themed on light, sound or speed · Abstract backgrounds that dissolve a product photograph into radiating lines
- Type
- Sharp, angular display type set on the diagonal, almost absorbed into the ray structure
- Composition
- Diagonal shafts of line crossing at acute angles; planes appear only at the intersections
- Material
- A restricted palette layered in translucent slashes over a dark or neutral ground
- Caution
- Avoid drawing the object and adding rays on top; if contours survive beneath the lines, the dissolution into pure light fails.
- Further study
- Larionov's Rayonist manifesto / The relationship with Neo-primitivism / The lineage of Russian abstraction