Robert Delaunay, Homage to Bleriot, 1914 The circular shapes are evocative of the circular shapes a propeller makes; serves as a homage to modern technology  Captures the hustle and bustle of modern cities like Paris Delaunay was actually one of the first to fly over Paris in an airplane  Uses bright colors and circular shapes, straying away from the straight lines and neutral colors of the Cubists and Futurists; he wants to make visible his personal experience of the city.

Robert Delaunay, Homage to Bleriot, 1914

  • The circular shapes are evocative of the circular shapes a propeller makes; serves as a homage to modern technology 
  • Captures the hustle and bustle of modern cities like Paris
  • Delaunay was actually one of the first to fly over Paris in an airplane 
  • Uses bright colors and circular shapes, straying away from the straight lines and neutral colors of the Cubists and Futurists; he wants to make visible his personal experience of the city.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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