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Sonia Delaunay (French: [sɔnja dəlonɛ]; 14 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist born to Jewish parents, who spent most of her working life in Paris.She was born in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine, and was formally trained in Russia and Germany, before moving to France and expanding her practice to include textile, fashion, and set design.
Robert Delaunay (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ dəlonɛ]; 12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; [1] who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
The Eiffel Tower series of Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) is a cycle of paintings and drawings of the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower was built by Gustave Eiffel. The series was painted in an emerging Orphist style, an art movement co-founded by Robert and Sonia Delaunay and František Kupka that added bright colors and increased abstraction to ...
Robert Delaunay was very involved in the artistic movements of the beginning of the 20th century. After going through neoimpressionism and divisionism , he created simultanism, with his wife, Sonia Delaunay , a technique which aimed to create pictorial harmony through the simultaneous arrangement of colors.
Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Windows on the City, 1912, Kunsthalle Hamburg. Orphism or Orphic Cubism, a term coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, was an offshoot of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors, influenced by Fauvism, the theoretical writings of Paul Signac, Charles Henry and the dye chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul.
Windows is a series of paintings created between 1912 and 1913 by the French painter Robert Delaunay. The paintings are oil and wax on canvas, and they mark Delaunay's turn towards abstraction and interest in color. The fragmented compositions of colored shapes are prime examples of Delaunay's use of simultaneous contrast.
During the First World War, Robert and Sonia Delaunay took refuge in Spain and Portugal, where they continued their artistic work on the observation of light and colors.On their return, the influential artists of the 1910-1914 era had dispersed or died, or had been replaced by new artists, the Dadaists, who later would become the Surrealists.
Robert and Sonia Delaunay where at the resort of San Sebastián, in Spain, when the First World War overtook them by surprise. They remained in Spain , staying for some months in Madrid . They decided to move to Portugal , settling in the northern village of Vila do Conde , near Porto , where they lived from June 1915 to March 1916.