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
light color movement
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
painting language luminous
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
creativity creative vision
Vision is the true creative rhythm.
color movement importance
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
eye mind consciousness
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
understanding perception
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
art architecture horror
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
art relate ifs
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
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.
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.
men light color
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.
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...