Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunaywas a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth12 April 1885
CityParis, France
movement vital
The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.
believe color movement
First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.
light movement visuals
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
vision movement seeing
Seeing is in itself a movement.
light color movement
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
color movement importance
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
action
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
art mean light
The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize...
definitions care take-care
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
artist hands color
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
art communication men
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
art relate ifs
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
reality vision contemplation
Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.
painting
Nature engenders the science of painting