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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 ...
Delaunay took inspiration of a photograph that he saw in a magazine of a rugby game for the painting series of which this was the second made. [2] The painting depicts a game where a rugby team from Cardiff, in Wales, is participating, facing an unnamed adversary, possibly a French team. Six rugby players are shown in the lower part of the work ...
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It is part of the Windows painting series. The current painting, like its predecessor, Simultaneous Windows 2nd Motif, 1st Part , is held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , in New York . [ 1 ] A painting with the same title is held at Tate Modern , in London .