1915, Robert Delaunay, Female Nude Reading -- San Diego Museum of Art
From the museum label: Delaunay's language of luminous forms would be termed "Orphic" by the critic Guillaume Apollinaire, a poetic evocation of the work's "cosmic" character. The overlapping constellation of circular motifs at the edges of the composition recall the color wheels of Michel Eugène Chevreul, a chemist whose theory of simultaneous color contrasts had also been a touchstone of Impressionism.
1915, Robert Delaunay, Female Nude Reading -- San Diego Museum of Art
From the museum label: Delaunay's language of luminous forms would be termed "Orphic" by the critic Guillaume Apollinaire, a poetic evocation of the work's "cosmic" character. The overlapping constellation of circular motifs at the edges of the composition recall the color wheels of Michel Eugène Chevreul, a chemist whose theory of simultaneous color contrasts had also been a touchstone of Impressionism.