1913, Robert Delaunay, L'Equipe de Cardiff -- Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris
From the museum label: Designed with the visual effectiveness of an advertising poster, the 'freest and most powerful' canvas of the 1913 Salon des Indépendants art exhibition, according to Apollinaire, invites the viewer to the show of modern life. Delaunay reconfigures clips from magazines, photographs and postcards into new visual media in dynamic simultaneity and a vibration of colours. Rugby players in action are the vehicles for the decomposition of colour by light. The biplane, the aeronautics brand 'Astra', the Eiffel Tower and the Ferris wheel herald the beginning of the era of high thrill, and of Paris as a 'Magic City' launching towards the future. The painter associates himself with this brilliant international momentum in art, signing the piece 'Delaunay / New York / Paris / Berlin'.
1913, Robert Delaunay, L'Equipe de Cardiff -- Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris
From the museum label: Designed with the visual effectiveness of an advertising poster, the 'freest and most powerful' canvas of the 1913 Salon des Indépendants art exhibition, according to Apollinaire, invites the viewer to the show of modern life. Delaunay reconfigures clips from magazines, photographs and postcards into new visual media in dynamic simultaneity and a vibration of colours. Rugby players in action are the vehicles for the decomposition of colour by light. The biplane, the aeronautics brand 'Astra', the Eiffel Tower and the Ferris wheel herald the beginning of the era of high thrill, and of Paris as a 'Magic City' launching towards the future. The painter associates himself with this brilliant international momentum in art, signing the piece 'Delaunay / New York / Paris / Berlin'.