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Robert-Victor-Félix
Delaunay was born April 12, 1885, in Paris.
By 1909, Delaunay had progressed from a neoimpressionist
phase to cubism, applying cubist principles
to the exploration of color. He immediately
enlarged cubist themes to include the architecture
of cities.
He became a major figure in the movement Apollinaire
termed orphism. This amalgam of fauve color,
futurist dynamism, and analytical cubism sought
to emulate the rhythms but not the appearance
of nature. Delaunay is most famous for his series
of paintings of the Eiffel Tower; one of them
is in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York City.
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