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Robert Delaunay [1885-1941] French

Rank: 101
Artist

Robert Delaunay was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee.

Art, Nature, Communication, Imagination, Science

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Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.	Art, Nature	101
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.	Nature	102
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.		103
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.	Art	104
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.		105
Painting is by nature a luminous language.	Art, Nature	106
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.		107
Nature engenders the science of painting.	Nature, Science	108
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.	Art	109
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.		110
Vision is the true creative rhythm.	Imagination	111
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.		112
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.		113
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.		114
Seeing is in itself a movement.		115
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.		116
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.		117
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.		118
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.		119
This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.		120
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.	Communication	121
The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.		122
I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.		123
First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.		124

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