Art is only a substitute while the beauty of life is still deficient.
Passion ' was the artist's ability to grasp order intuitively in the disorder of his surroundings, to find art in the material world of nature and man-made objects. The bottles and guitars of Purist paintings and therefore objects in which order has been found. The qualities of that order are clear, for the objects of Purist paintings are of course 'objets types'. Thus the 'objet type' joined the generalized, formal emphasis essential in art, to the material world without danger of distraction. Orphism can briefly be described as a tendency towards abstract or - as it was called at the time ' pure ' painting which manifested itself in Paris between late 1911 and early 1914.