Died 1941-10-25.
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Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract. His key influence related to the bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone.
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culture · French painter (1885–1941) · painter · designer · theatre designer · visual artist · also Robert Delaunay, Robert Delaunay II, Robert Delaunay (1885-1941), Delaunay, Robert II Delaunay, Robert Victor Félix Delaunay
Born 12 April 1885 · Died 25 October 1941 · Q33978
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O que é de grande importância para mim é a observação do movimento das cores. Somente desta forma eu encontro as leis do contraste complementar e simultâneo das cores que sustentam o ritmo da minha visão. Neste movimento das cores eu encontro a essência, que não origina-se de um sistema, ou uma teoria a priori.
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Ver é em si um movimento. A visão é o verdadeiro ritmo criativo. Dicernir a qualidade de ritmos é um movimento, e a qualidade essencial da pintura é representação do movimento da visão que opera em objetivar a si mesma rumo a realidade. Isto é o essencial da arte, e sua maior intensidade.
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1941· 3 entries
“Ver é em si um movimento. A visão é o verdadeiro ritmo criativo. Dicernir a qualidade de ritmos é um movimento, e a qualidade essencial da pintura é representação do movimento da visão que opera em objetivar a si mesma rumo a realidade. Isto é o essencial da arte, e sua maior intensidade.”
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“O que é de grande importância para mim é a observação do movimento das cores. Somente desta forma eu encontro as leis do contraste complementar e simultâneo das cores que sustentam o ritmo da minha visão. Neste movimento das cores eu encontro a essência, que não origina-se de um sistema, ou uma teoria a priori.”
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1921· 1 entry
Robert and Sonia Delaunay returned to Paris
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1920· 1 entry
Citing as one of the reasons her marriage to a deserter
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1917· 1 entry
The Delaunays met Sergei Diaghilev in Madrid
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1914· 1 entry
Sonia and Robert were staying in Fontarabie in Spain
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1912· 1 entry
“This happened in 1912. Cubism was in full force. I made paintings that seemed like prisms compared to the Cubism my fellow artists were producing. I was the heretic of Cubism. I had great arguments with my comrades who banned color from their palette, depriving it of all elemental mobility. I was accused of returning to Impressionism, of making decorative paintings, etc.… I felt I had almost reached my goal.”
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1909· 1 entry
Delaunay began to paint a series of studies of the city of Paris and the Eiffel Tower, the Eiffel Tower series
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1908· 1 entry
After a term in the military working as a regimental librarian, he met fellow artist Sonia Terk; at the time she was married to a German art dealer whom she would soon divorce
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1907· 1 entry
As Divisionists who used large, mosaic-like 'cubes' to construct small but highly symbolic compositions
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1906· 3 entries
And 1907—would develop a new sub-style of Neo-Impressionism that had great significance shortly thereafter within the context of their Cubist works
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And 1907, when he and Delaunay did portraits of each other (Art market, London, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) in prominent rectangles of pigment
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Contributed works he painted in Brittany to the 22nd Salon des Indépendants, where he met "Le Douanier" Henri Rousseau
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1902· 1 entry
Sent him to Ronsin's atelier to study Decorative Arts in the Belleville district of Paris
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-04-12.
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