Word: delaunay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasional cloud, it is the thought of how swiftly time has flown since he first arrived, a bedazzled Russian Jew, to greet Paris a full half-century ago. Of the pre-World War I luminaries that were then his contemporaries-the Frenchmen Braque, Matisse, Léger, Rouault, Delaunay, Villon, the Spaniard Juan Gris, the Rumanian Sculptor Brancusi, the Italian Modigliani, the Russians Kandinsky and Soutine-only Picasso, now 83, remains of those who gave the School of Paris its start. Of the two principal survivors, Picasso is the most protean and cerebral, Chagall the most constant champion...
...founder, the late Solomon R. Guggenheim. Back in 1928 he had seen his first nonobjective painting and declared, "By Jove, this is beautiful!" Under the guidance of his good friend, Nonobjective Painter Hilla Rebay, he built a lasting collection around paintings by Braque, Picasso, Léger, Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes. Among newcomers to the museum are Daumier, Manet and Pissarro...
...color. He exemplifies the young Londoners' qualities of depthless space, cool expertise, matte brilliance of color. He too indulges in controlled erotica when not painting buses, aircraft, and parachutists, all blurred images of speed. A Southampton engineer's son, Jones admires a curious lot of ancestors from Delaunay to Miró. Intrigued by the notion of creativity as the interaction between the male and female within each person, he often paints androgynous figures such as Hermaphrodite...
Bouncier than Bach. That poetic arbiter of artistic taste, Apollinaire, promptly dubbed Kupka's work "Orphism," and paired him with the French colorist Robert Delaunay. Although he rejected the association, Kupka churned out whorls of saturated color, dazzling fingerprints of the spectrum. With his paintpots, he set cubism on fire...
...SONIA DELAUNAY-Granville, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th St. Gouaches and oils done by the widow of Painter Robert Delaunay. Brilliant suns whirl across the canvases, lock in geometrical embraces of color. Through...