Robert Delaunay: Woman with a Parasol

Robert Delaunay (French, 1885-1941), *Woman with a Parasol* (1913) Oil on canvas. 121 x 85 cm Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

“From 1912 onwards, the followers of the Cubist movement gradually evolved from their monochrome beginnings towards a more colourful mode. Robert Delaunay was one of the first to react against the chromatic monotony of analytical Cubism and to advocate “pure painting” and the importance of colour in painterly practice. The French painter, who left many writings on his own oeuvre and on his role as a pioneer of modern art, wrote in 1913: “Line is limitation. Colour gives depth (not perspective, not successive, but simultaneous) both its form and movement.” His colourful plastic language,…, which Delaunay was to term “simultaneous contrasts, ” was dubbed “Orphism, ” or “Orphic Cubism, ” by Apollinaire.”
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