Delaunay Robert - Rhythm, joy of living

Robert Delaunay French artist who, famous for his use of strong colours and geometric shapes, and who, with his wife Sonia and others, created the Orphism movement, based on the law of colour contrasts developing over time and being perceived simultaneously. His key influence was this unreserved use of colour, the love of experimentation with both depth and tone.

In 1930, Delaunay returned to "inobjective" art in Rythmes and Rythmes sans fin, where color alone is expressed, which, through its organization, its dimension, its relationships in space, determines the rhythms of forms. The Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris has a representative collection of his work, including this one. The dynamic possibilities of the colored disks, which are set in motion by the physical action of the gaze alone, are used to give their rhythm to the composition.