Simultaneism

Simultaneism is a technique that was born from the artistic movement called "Orphism".

Here, talented painter, David Berkowitz Chicago explains more about this technique.

As the painter points out, the simultaneism technique consists of using contrasting colors in small juxtaposed areas (placed one next to the other). So, when we observe the the whole picture in a glance, this generates an effect of shapes, luminosity, space, movement.

Berkowitz Chicago explains simultaneism like this: "Orphism is a painting that technically has no more than color contrasts, which develop over time and are perceived simultaneously, in one fell swoop”.

Berkowitz Chicago shares that the "creator" of Orphism is Robert Delaunay, along with his wife Sonia.

According to Berkowitz Chicago, this idea of ​​generating shapes and rhythm from colors is inspired by the Law of simultaneous contrast of colors, formulated by a chemist named Michel-Eugene Chevreul, in 1839.

Chevreul developed the rule of simultaneous contrast: if two colors are close together in in space or time, each will take on the hue of the complement of the adjacent color.

The prominent painter, Berkowitz Chicago explains that this rule indicates that the colors change their appearance according to what they have next to them.

Except in Orphism, simultaneism is also used by futurists. Both movements are defined very broadly as "cubism with movement" in the early 10's of the 20th century.

David Berkowitz Chicago explains that Orphism comes from the mythological character Orpheus, who plays the lyre and is the one who achieves the combination of music with poetry in a moving way.

“The idea of ​​Orphism is that those colors and light generate rhythms as if they were music,” says David Berkowitz Chicago, who has been studying this technique over the course of his career. “The rhythm of life, the music that all things carry inside”.

For this reason, the artistic movement is called Orphism, and the technique that allows Orphism to express its idea, its essence is called simultaneism.