#rayism

- Ray Narvaez Jr.

In the autumn of 1912, Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova developed a new visual language they called Rayism, in which, inspired by the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity, they claimed to depict not objects but rays of light or energy these objects reflected. “I established the convention,” Larionov wrote in 1913, “of depicting a ray on canvas as a colored line.” In this painting, Larionov traces rays that radiate from glass; he creates a dense network of lines and planes fusing object and background into a single unit. 

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