Robert Delaunay was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
14 Facts About Robert Delaunay
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Robert Delaunay's writings on color, which were influenced by scientists and theoreticians, are intuitive and can sometimes be random statements based on the belief that color is a thing in itself, with its own powers of expression and form.
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Robert Delaunay believes painting is a purely visual art that depends on intellectual elements, and perception is in the impact of colored light on the eye.
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Robert Delaunay was born in Paris, the son of George Delaunay and Countess Berthe Felicie de Rose.
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At age 19, Robert Delaunay left Ronsin to focus entirely on painting and contributed six works to the Salon des Independants in 1904.
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Robert Delaunay traveled to Brittany, where he was influenced by the group of Pont-Aven; and, in 1906, he contributed works he painted in Brittany to the 22nd Salon des Independants, where he met Henri Rousseau.
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Robert Delaunay formed a close friendship at this time with Jean Metzinger, with whom he shared an exhibition at a gallery run by Berthe Weill early in 1907.
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The height of his Neo-Impressionist work was in 1906 and 1907, when he and Robert Delaunay did portraits of each other in prominent rectangles of pigment.
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In 1909, Robert 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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Robert Delaunay participated in the first Blaue Reiter exhibition in Munich and sold four works.
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At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Sonia and Robert Delaunay were staying in Fontarabie in Spain.
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Robert Delaunay continued to work in both figurative and abstract themes, with a brief stint into Surrealism.
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Robert Delaunay met Andre Breton and Tristan Tzara, who introduced him to both Dadaists and Surrealists.
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Robert Delaunay died of cancer on 25 October 1941 in Montpellier at the age of 56.