Guillaume Apollinaire
Two years after being wounded in World War I, Apollinaire died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; he was 38.
Guillaume Apollinaire
In "Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques" (1913) Apollinaire described Orphism as "the art of painting new totalities with elements that the artist does not take from visual reality, but creates entirely by himself. [...] An Orphic painter's works should convey an "untroubled aesthetic pleasure", but at the same time a "meaningful structure and sublime significance". According to Apollinaire Orphism represented a move towards a completely new art-form, much as music was to literature.