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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 ...
In 1909, Delaunay began to paint a series of studies of the city of Paris and the Eiffel Tower, the Eiffel Tower series. The following year, he married Terk, and the couple settled in a studio apartment in Paris, where their son Charles was born in January 1911.
The Eiffel Tower was then the tallest building in the world, and was considered the French symbol par excellence of modernity, especially at the beginning of the 20th century. Delaunay's Champs de Mars: The Red Tower is primarily intended to radiate the power and dynamism of the modernity and innovation at this time. Its red tower rises like a ...
During the same period, Delaunay painted Windows, a series which is closer to abstract art.But, in the series dedicated to the Cardiff Team, the painting cannot be considered abstract, because there are many elements of everyday life visible: the rugby players, an advertising board, the Eiffel Tower, a rollercoaster.
Delaunay when he created this painting series had already left representation. However, some references are still visible here, like the almost undetectable presence of the Eiffel Tower, in the green colour, at the center.
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Robert Delaunay begins painting his Saint-Sévrin, City and Eiffel Tower series. Lithuanian Jewish sculptor Jacques Lipchitz moves to Paris to study and work. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque create the first works of analytical cubism. Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler established in Düsseldorf.
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.