Robert Delaunay Birthday, Date of Birth

Robert Delaunay est un peintre français né le 12 avril 1885 à Paris et mort le 25 octobre 1941 à Montpellier. Avec sa femme Sonia Delaunay et quelques autres moins impliqués, tels que František Kupka, Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger et Vassily Kandinsky, il est le fondateur et le principal artisan du mouvement orphiste, nom inventé par Apollinaire et branche du cubisme, au début du XX^e siècle. Ses travaux sur la couleur prennent pour origine plusieurs théories de la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, formulées par Michel-Eugène Chevreul. Par un travail concentré sur l'agencement des couleurs sur la toile, il cherche l'harmonie picturale.

Delaunay fait partie d'une génération d'avant-garde, particulièrement prolifique sur le plan artistique entre 1912 et 1914. Il est très lié (en correspondance, en art, voire en amitié) avec les poètes Guillaume Apollinaire et Blaise Cendrars, les peintres russes Vassily Kandinsky et Michel Larionov, les peintres allemands August Macke ou Franz Marc, le peintre slovaque Geza Szobel.

Après la guerre, il se lie d'amitié avec les artistes du mouvement surréaliste, dont il réalise plusieurs portraits, sans pour autant adopter leurs points de vue et leurs visions artistiques. Il aura notamment une amitié forte et durable avec le poète Tristan Tzara.

Son nom est également associé à la tour Eiffel, dont il a vu la construction alors qu'il avait quatre ans, et qu'il a peinte de nombreuses fois dans sa carrière, en utilisant des méthodes différentes, d'abord néo-impressionniste puis cubiste, et ensuite avec sa méthode simultanéiste.

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