Robert Delaunay in his artist quotes on painting, color & life - free resource, French art history

Robert Delaunay quotes - the artist on his painting art, color-use and his life in Paris, France - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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Robert Delaunay’s quotes inform us about his many experiments he did with color-forms. ‘Simultaneousness’, was the word he used, to express his color-experiments, which he repeatedly described in his writings. His art-style is later officially named in France as Orphism.

Delaunay became already a colorist painter in his early Cubist years in Paris. After some years he refused to limit colors any longer, as Cubism dictated. Delaunay started with his wife Sonia and other French artists Orphism art-style, with a strong focus on colored forms! In this way you can say that Delaunay was continuing Impressionist art in France, but in solid color-forms - no longer in the broken-colors of the older Impressionists!
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Some selected artist-quotes of French artist Robert Delaunay - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’ ‘Simultaneousness’ is a technique. Simultaneous contrast is the most up-to-date honey of this technique in this field. Simultaneous contrast is visible depth - Reality, Form, construction, representation. Depth is the new inspiration. We live in depth, we travel in depth. I’m in it. The senses are in it. And the mind is too.’ - quote of Delaunay in his text ‘Simultanism’, Oct. 1913

• ’This happened in 1912. Cubism was in full force. I made paintings that seemed like prisms compared to the Cubism my fellow artists were producing. I was the heretic of Cubism. I had great arguments with my comrades who banned color from their palette, depriving it of all elemental mobility. I was accused of returning to Impressionism, of making decorative paintings, etc… .I felt I had almost reached my goal.’ - Delaunay’s quote from his ‘First Notebook, 1939’

• ’As long as art cannot get free from the object, it will continue to be a description.’ - his quote in ‘On light’; as cited by Susanna Partsch in ‘Paul Klee’, 2003, p. 20
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  selection of free resources on French artist Robert Delaunay:

  • extended biographical notes of Delaunay, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Delaunay
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Delaunay, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Delaunay
  • images of his painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Robert Delaunay
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]