What If Metropolises

OGR
By Daniel Harrington

Robert Delauney
"As an artist, as a manual craftsman, I wage my revolution on walls. I have now
discovered new materials that can transform a wall, not only externally but in its
very substance.Separate man from art? Never. I cannot separate man from art
because I build houses for him! Even when fashion dictated easel art, I was
already envisaging great murals." (Robert Delaunay).

Bio
Robert Delaunay was born in Paris in 1855 to an upper class family at a young age Robert was moved to America to live in LA with his
aunt and uncle who were his main support in his life .He began painting when he was a young man and worked as an apprenticeship in
theatrical designer from 1920 to 1940.
Other than this and natural talent he had no formal training his first exhibition was inn 1904 at Salon des Independents he was one of
the youngest artist to exhibit his work here. And this work was undoubtedly influenced strongly by impressionists art movement and
work of the time. After this he started to test more methods in his work soon after this like taking pointillist ideas and stretching the
shapes to integrate colour and movement.
By 1908 he had become fully part and a big player in the development of the cubism and his painting of the Eiffel tower painted in the
1910 and was perceived with great acclamation.
In the 1912 his submission to salon des independents called city of Paris which caused a massive impression on the art community
abstract work has been fought of as inspired and revolutionary in the evolution of French art.
His work was so new and unique that it was given the name Orphism by an Apollinaire this was down to the way the art had
resemblances to the abstract music in the 1914 Delaunay started to experiment with wax in his work.
When world war one started Delaunay moved to Portugal then to Spain where he then worked briefly with the artist Diaghilev and then
relocating back to Paris in the twenties he also collaborated with the artist Fernand leger in an art deco exhibition and worked on a
number of set designs for film
His reputation declined a bit towards the ended of his career but he continued to make artwork and experiment with techniques and
materials like mosaics sand and treated stone wich was used in his acclaimed reliefs series. He always had a idea of greatness for his
work witch was finally realized by his commission work for thee international Exhibition in 1937.
In 1938 working with his wife Sonia Delaunay and other artist and friends he decorated the Tuileries salon where he created three
enormous rhythms.

Orphism
Abstract, cubist influenced painting style developed by Robert and Sonia
Delaunayaround 1912The term, sometimes called orphic cubism, was coined
around 1912

13 by the Frenchpoet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire and used to distinguish
their work fromcubism generally. The name comes from the legendary ancient
Greek poet andmusician Orpheus. Its use by Apollinaire relates to the idea that
painting should be likemusic, which was an important element in the development
of abstract art. RobertDelaunay himself used the term simultaneous to describe

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