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Definition: Delaunay, Robert from Philip's Encyclopedia

French painter, co-founder (with his wife Sonia Delaunay-Terk) of orphism. Delaunay was a major influence on der Blaue Reiter. Many of his works are abstract cityscapes, principally of his native Paris. The Eiffel Tower series is his most famous.

Delaunay, Robert

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
French painter. He was a pioneer of abstract art. With his wife Sonia Delaunay-Terk, he developed a style known as Orphism , an early variation of cubism, focusing on the effects of pure colour contrasts. Working from the colour theories of the French chemist Michel Chevreul , Delaunay and his wife explored the simultaneous effects of light on disclike planes of radiant, contrasting colour, their aim being to produce a visual equivalent to music. Delaunay painted several series 1912, notably Circular Forms (almost purely abstract) and Simultaneous Windows (inspired by Parisian cityscapes). His art was described as ‘Orphist’ (essentially musical) by Guillaume Apollinaire. He carried out a huge decorative scheme (ten large reliefs in colour and a vast Rhythm ) for the Palace of Air and Railway Pavilion of the Paris Exposition of 1937, and with other artists, including his wife, the Russian artist Sonia Delaunay-Terk , decorated the sculpture hall at the Salon des Tuileries 1938. …
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1885-1941 French painter Born in Paris, he abandoned stage design for painting in 1905 and his first works are painted in a colourful Divisionist (Pointillist) technique. Under the influence of Cézanne he subdued his palette, but later returned to high-key colour in a series of pictures of…
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Full text Article Orpheus

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In Greek legend a Thracian poet, the son of Oeagrus and calliope (held by some to be a son of apollo ), who could move even inanimate things by his music, a power that was also claimed for the Scandinavian odin . When his wife, eurydice , a dryad , died, he went into the infernal regions and so…
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Eiffel Tower, an oil painting on canvas by Robert...
(born April 12, 1885, Paris, Fr.—died Oct. 25, 1941, Montpellier) French painter. He spent his early career as a part-time designer of stage scenery and came under the influence of Neo-Impressionism , Fauvism , and Cubism . In 1909–11 his colour experiments culminated in a series of paintings of the…
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From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(12 April 1885–25 October 1941) As a pioneering abstract painter, he founded, in collaboration with his wife SONIA, among others, a movement that GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE called Orphism. In contrast to other early abstractionists favoring alternative, often geometric shapes, they favored strong colors…
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Full text Article Delaunay, Sonia (1885–1979)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
Russian painter, fashion and textile designer and poster artist. Born in the Ukraine, she studied anatomy and drawing at the Kunstakademie, Karlsruhe, 1903–4, before moving to Paris to train as a painter at the Académie de la Palette, Paris (1905). She then worked as an independent painter and…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(rōbĕr' dӘlōnā'), 1885–1941, French painter; husband of Sonia Delaunay-Terk . By 1909, Delaunay had progressed from a neoimpressionist phase to cubism , applying cubist principles to the exploration of color. He immediately enlarged cubist themes to include the architecture of cities (e.g., La Ville…
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Full text Article PAINTING AND POETRY

From The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The hist. of the relation of poetry to painting might be construed as an account of the innumerable contacts between these arts since cl. antiquity; it might be taken to concern poets such as R. M. Rilke (1875-1926) who adapt values and conventions from painting to poetry; it might treat figures who…
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