1912, Robert Delaunay, Les Tours de Laon (The Towers of Laon) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: "Today's art is linked to Gothic art through all that was genuinely French in the intermediary schools" (Guillaume Apollinaire).
After devoting a considerable series to the interior of the Saint Séverin Paris church in 1909, Robert Delaunay portrayed Laon cathedral. Particularly suited to a Cubist transposition, the Gothic architecture breaks down into geometric facets. It blends gently into the landscape in a blue-green monochrome, heightened with violet. This subject choice is a way of bridging cubism with a national tradition.
1912, Robert Delaunay, Les Tours de Laon (The Towers of Laon) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: "Today's art is linked to Gothic art through all that was genuinely French in the intermediary schools" (Guillaume Apollinaire).
After devoting a considerable series to the interior of the Saint Séverin Paris church in 1909, Robert Delaunay portrayed Laon cathedral. Particularly suited to a Cubist transposition, the Gothic architecture breaks down into geometric facets. It blends gently into the landscape in a blue-green monochrome, heightened with violet. This subject choice is a way of bridging cubism with a national tradition.