Word: delaunay
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...wife picking flowers, done in this mode around 1909-10, are of extraordinary interest, preceding Duchamp's famous Nude Descending a Staircase by two years. Like wise, the paintings Kupka made later-a series of abstract color disks rotating in space-appear to have influenced Robert Delaunay's disk paintings of 1913. At least Kupka believed so, and remained bitter about Delaunay till the end of his life. "Exhibit, why?" he demanded of a visitor to Puteaux in the '50s. "So that everyone can copy...
Fatuous. The truth seems to be that there is no way, iconographic, stylistic or other, to tell the sex of an artist by looking at her or his work. Who was more "feminine" in paint handling, Renoir or Sonia Delaunay? In terms of the stereotype, the answer would have to be Renoir. It is easy, once one has seen the name of Joan Snyder affixed to her recent painting Smashed Strokes Hope, 1972, to attribute a feminine sensibility to those glowing, flecked, dispersed blotches and runs of green, gold and crimson. But when this painting is set alongside other recent...
...occasional cloud, it is the thought of how swiftly time has flown since he first arrived, a bedazzled Russian Jew, to greet Paris a full half-century ago. Of the pre-World War I luminaries that were then his contemporaries-the Frenchmen Braque, Matisse, Léger, Rouault, Delaunay, Villon, the Spaniard Juan Gris, the Rumanian Sculptor Brancusi, the Italian Modigliani, the Russians Kandinsky and Soutine-only Picasso, now 83, remains of those who gave the School of Paris its start. Of the two principal survivors, Picasso is the most protean and cerebral, Chagall the most constant champion...
...founder, the late Solomon R. Guggenheim. Back in 1928 he had seen his first nonobjective painting and declared, "By Jove, this is beautiful!" Under the guidance of his good friend, Nonobjective Painter Hilla Rebay, he built a lasting collection around paintings by Braque, Picasso, Léger, Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes. Among newcomers to the museum are Daumier, Manet and Pissarro...
...color. He exemplifies the young Londoners' qualities of depthless space, cool expertise, matte brilliance of color. He too indulges in controlled erotica when not painting buses, aircraft, and parachutists, all blurred images of speed. A Southampton engineer's son, Jones admires a curious lot of ancestors from Delaunay to Miró. Intrigued by the notion of creativity as the interaction between the male and female within each person, he often paints androgynous figures such as Hermaphrodite...