1912, Robert Delaunay, Windows Open Simultaneously 1st Part, 3rd Motif -- Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice)
This is one of thirteen paintings of Windows Delaunay painted between April 1912 and January 1913. Its overlapping colors and transparent planes are arranged so that the eye moves constantly across the picture's surface, inducing, as Delaunay would have wished, a heightened poetic or lyrical consciousness comparable to that induced by music. It is both a pure color composition and the distillation of a view across the roof tops of Paris, to the Eiffel Tower--a tapering green form near the center of the composition. The Eiffel Tower was for Delaunay a modern symbol, referring to man's technological and scientific accomplishments.
1912, Robert Delaunay, Windows Open Simultaneously 1st Part, 3rd Motif -- Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice)
This is one of thirteen paintings of Windows Delaunay painted between April 1912 and January 1913. Its overlapping colors and transparent planes are arranged so that the eye moves constantly across the picture's surface, inducing, as Delaunay would have wished, a heightened poetic or lyrical consciousness comparable to that induced by music. It is both a pure color composition and the distillation of a view across the roof tops of Paris, to the Eiffel Tower--a tapering green form near the center of the composition. The Eiffel Tower was for Delaunay a modern symbol, referring to man's technological and scientific accomplishments.