synonymdelaunay (French painter) generally refers to Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay (1885-1941), Francepainter。He tried abstract forms and colors, and was the first to create pure abstract workspainterone of.In works such as Sun Disc and Circle: Sun and Moon, Delaunay made color the theme of painting and used color to create forms.
Delaunay in his hometownParisI started painting around 1904.In 1910, he andUkraineBorn French artist Sonia Teko (1885-1979) married.In the same year, Delaunay began to create a series of Eiffel Tower paintings.In these works, he combines the fragmented cubism form with the changeable color opposition.By 1912, he began to paint only abstract works.art critic Guillaume ApollinaireHe specially invented a new word "Orferisms" to describe Delaunay's lyricismAbstract works[1]。
Born in Paris, he loved painting since childhood and studied in a stage art school.In 1904, he became a professional painter. In painting, he was subjected to color decompositionCezanne The concept of space andPicasso、BraqueThe influence of many factors, such as shape analysis, etc.In addition, he once devoted himself to the study of Schaefner's book "The Contrast of Identical Colors";This work, which once had a decisive impact on Shura's painting, also deeply affected Delaunay's painting, making him finally take the expression of the rhythmic beauty of light and color as his main goal of painting.He decomposed the light into the seven colors of the rainbow, and combined them in the painting in a new way, finally leading the painting to the road of pure abstraction.
The Window of the City, No. 4, created between 1910-1911, in this work, Delaunay used the color dot pattern originated from the stippling school to create a geometric world like a kaleidoscope.This is the first abstract work in modern painting.
Western Modernism The emergence of art has its political, economic, cultural and philosophical historical origins, and is closely linked with the process of modern western society.
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New technological revolution, changes in social structure, people's thoughts, consciousness and values, and the relationship between people, the increasingly mature photography technology, the introduction of oriental and African art represented by Japanese prints,Kant 、Hegel、schopenhauer 、NietzscheThe influence of his philosophy and Freudian psychology, as well as various contradictions and drawbacks in the western real society, have promoted the formation of modern art.
The "disc" series paintings painted by Delaunay in 1912-1913 are recognized as the earliest pure abstract paintings by French painters.Delaunay himself called them "the decisive and open declaration of abstract painting" in his later years.In this series of paintings, disks with different shapes and overlapping each other are the only motif of the picture.Delaunay regarded them as a symbol of some kind of cosmic spirit.
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Window, 1912-13
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Delaunay systematically used windows in his paintings to deconstruct the prism of color, and the unstable lines of color no longer constitute anything.
