1914, Sonia Delaunay, Prismes électriques (Electric Prisms) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: The modern beauty of electric light bulbs and rail travel inspired the artist for this composition vibrating with colour.
Sonia Delaunay's simultaneous painting produces multiplying contrasts in primary and secondary colours, creating light effects and an intense optical vibration. Prism-coloured discs dazzle the onlooker's eye. One cartridge evokes the poem by French poet Blaise Cendrars, Prose on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Prismes électriques creates its own energy in a perpetual motion, to the point of cosmic transcendence.
1914, Sonia Delaunay, Prismes électriques (Electric Prisms) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: The modern beauty of electric light bulbs and rail travel inspired the artist for this composition vibrating with colour.
Sonia Delaunay's simultaneous painting produces multiplying contrasts in primary and secondary colours, creating light effects and an intense optical vibration. Prism-coloured discs dazzle the onlooker's eye. One cartridge evokes the poem by French poet Blaise Cendrars, Prose on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Prismes électriques creates its own energy in a perpetual motion, to the point of cosmic transcendence.