Word: delaunay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife picking flowers, done in this mode around 1909-10, are of extraordinary interest, preceding Duchamp's famous Nude Descending a Staircase by two years. Like wise, the paintings Kupka made later-a series of abstract color disks rotating in space-appear to have influenced Robert Delaunay's disk paintings of 1913. At least Kupka believed so, and remained bitter about Delaunay till the end of his life. "Exhibit, why?" he demanded of a visitor to Puteaux in the '50s. "So that everyone can copy...
Fatuous. The truth seems to be that there is no way, iconographic, stylistic or other, to tell the sex of an artist by looking at her or his work. Who was more "feminine" in paint handling, Renoir or Sonia Delaunay? In terms of the stereotype, the answer would have to be Renoir. It is easy, once one has seen the name of Joan Snyder affixed to her recent painting Smashed Strokes Hope, 1972, to attribute a feminine sensibility to those glowing, flecked, dispersed blotches and runs of green, gold and crimson. But when this painting is set alongside other recent...