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Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 β 25 October 1941) was a French artist. He was one of the Orphist school of painters, who combined Cubism and abstraction.
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βAs long as art cannot get free from the object, it will continue to be a description.β
βI can see the black spots of the sun [remark to Sonia Delaunay, his wife and female artist].β
βWhat they are saying is okay [the Futurist artists like Severini, Carra and Russolo, who debated in Paris intensively with the Cubist artists].β
βOn 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.β
βLight in nature creates movement in color. The movement is provided by the relationships of uneven measures, of colors contrasts among themselves and constitutes Reality [In this quote Delaunay is referring to his series 'Window'-paintings', which he had started in 1912].β
β'Simultaneousness' is a technique. Simultaneous contrast is the most up-to-date honey of this technique in this field. Simultaneous contrast is visible depth β Reality, Form, construction, representation. Depth is the new inspiration. We live in depth, we travel in depth. Iβm in it. The senses are in it. And the mind is too.β
βThe need for a new subject has inspired the poets, launching them onto a fresh path and bringing to their attention to poetry of la Tour [the Eiffel tower in Paris], which communicates mysteriously with the whole world. Rays of light, waves of symphonic sounds. Factories, bridges, iron structures, airships, the numberless gyrations of aeroplanes, windows seen by crowd simultaneously.β
βThis 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.[6]β
βThe woman of City of Paris' [Delaunay painted in 1910 β 1912] sums up the [his] Cubist period.. ..'The Cardiff team' [he painted in 1913] is more significant in the expression of colour, less shattered. The yellow poster in the complete picture contrasts with the blues, greens and orange.β
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Robert Delaunay on Abstract art
βAs long as art cannot get free from the object, it will continue to be a description.β
Robert Delaunay on Impressionism
βOn 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.β
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Sonia Delaunay on Robert Delaunay
Albert Gleizes on Robert Delaunay
βNever had the critics been so violent as they were at that time. From which it became clear that these paintings - and I specify the names of the painters who were, alone, the reluctant causes of all this frenzy: Jean Metzinger, Le Fauconnier, Fernand LΓ©ger, Robert Delaunay and myself - appeared as a threat to an order that everyone thought had been established forever.β
August Macke on Robert Delaunay
βHe [Robert Delaunay] gives movement itself [in his pictures], the Futurists only illustrate movement..β
Jean Metzinger on Robert Delaunay
βIt used to be said of a woman: why she's a VelΓ‘zquez infanta! Now it is said: she's a Renoir blonde! I have no doubt that, in the future, it will be proclaimed: she's as exuberant as a Delaunay, as noble as a Le Fauconnier, as beautiful as a Georges Braque or Picasso.β
About Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 β 25 October 1941) was a French artist. He was one of the Orphist school of painters, who combined Cubism and abstraction.