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Robert Delaunay (April 12, 1885—October 25, 1941) was a French artist who used orphism, similar to abstraction and cubism in his work. The National Museum ( Serbian: Народни музеј /Narodni Muzej in Belgrade, Serbia was founded in 1844 Belgrade (Београд Beograd is the Capital and largest city of Serbia. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Orphism or Orphic cubism, is a term coined in 1912 France by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Abstract art uses a Visual language of form color and line to create a composition which exists independently of visual references to the world Cubism was a 20th century Avant-garde Art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European Delaunay concentrated on orphism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. Abstract art uses a Visual language of form color and line to create a composition which exists independently of visual references to the world His key influence related to bold use of colour, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone. While he was a child, Delaunay's parents divorced, and he was raised by his uncle, in La Ronchère (near Bourges). Bourges is a commune in central France on the Yèvre river It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital He took up painting at an early age and, by 1903, he was producing mature imagery in a confident, impressionistic style.
In 1908, after a term in the military working as a regimental librarian, he met Sonia Terk, whom he later married, though at the time she was married to a German art dealer whom she would soon divorce. Sonia Delaunay (née Terk (1885 &ndash 1979 was a Jewish - French artist who with her husband Robert Delaunay and others cofounded the Orphism In 1909, Delaunay began to paint a series of studies of the city of Paris and the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel /tuʀ ɛfɛl/ is an Iron Tower built The following year, he married Terk, and the couple settled in a studio apartment in Paris, where they later had a son. At the invitation of Wassily Kandinsky, Delaunay joined The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), a Munich-based group of abstract artists, in 1911, and his art took a turn for the abstract. Wassily Kandinsky (Russian Василий Кандинский first name pronounced as) ( – 13 December 1944 was a Russian painter, Printmaker Der Blaue Reiter ( The Blue Rider) was a group of artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Abstract art uses a Visual language of form color and line to create a composition which exists independently of visual references to the world
The outbreak of World War I found Delaunay and his wife vacationing in Spain, and they settled with friends in Portugal for the duration of the conflict. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. During this period, the couple took on several jobs designing costumes for the Madrid Opera, and Sonia Delaunay started a fashion design business. After the war, in 1921, they returned to Paris. Delaunay continued to work in a mostly abstract style. During the 1937 World Fair in Paris, Delaunay participated in the design of the railway and air travel pavilions. The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life was held in 1937 in Paris When World War II erupted, the Delaunays moved to the Auvergne, in an effort to avoid the invading German forces. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Auvergne ( Occitan: Auvèrnhe/Auvèrnha) was the name of an historically independent county in the center of France, as well as later a Province of Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Suffering from cancer, Delaunay was unable to endure being moved around, and his health deteriorated. Cancer (medical term Malignant Neoplasm) is a class of Diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled He died from cancer on October 25, 1941 in Montpellier. Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Montpellier ( Occitan Montpelhièr) is a City in the south of France.
The Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (Spain),National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Guggenheim Museum (New York City), the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland), the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), the National Galleries of Scotland, the New Art Gallery (Walsall, England), Palazzo Cavour (Turin, Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli (Rome), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are among the public collections holding works by Robert Delaunay. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is a major showplace for Modern art and Contemporary art located in Buffalo New York. The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier Fine art museums The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA is associated with the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley California. The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum ( Museo de Bellas Artes in Spanish) is located in the city of Bilbao, in northern Spain, and is currently one The National Museum ( Serbian: Народни музеј /Narodni Muzej in Belgrade, Serbia was founded in 1844 Belgrade (Београд Beograd is the Capital and largest city of Serbia. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the M H de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor This article refers to the Guggenheim's landmark New York museum The Honolulu Academy of Arts was chartered in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke (Mrs The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street between Fifth The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne Australia. The National Galleries of Scotland are the five national galleries of Scotland and two partner galleries The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a small Museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia 's Fairmount Park, was established in 1876
Jazz expert Charles Delaunay is his and Sonia's son. Charles Delaunay ( January 18, 1911, in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, France – February 16, 1988, Paris) was a French
External links
- Quotes and images at artchive.com
- Entry at artcyclopedia.com
- Brief overview at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection site
- Robert Delaunay, letter to August Macke, 1912
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