| − | '''Robert Delaunay''' (b. París, 1885 - d. Montpellier, 1947) was a French [[painter]]. In 1912, he painted his first [[abstract]] works, his first "Disc" and "Circular Forms". Delaunay's works can be found in [[museums]] like: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. | + | '''Robert Delaunay''' (b. París, 1885 - d. Montpellier, 1947) was a French [[painter]]. In 1912, he painted his first [[abstract]] works, his first "Disc" and "Circular Forms". Delaunay's works can be found in [[museum]]s like: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. |
| − | Robert Delaunay’s critical role in establishing a fully abstract idiom immediately before World War I continues to assure for him an important place in 20th-century art, however much his reputation remains overshadowed by that of his contemporaries, such as [[Pablo Picasso]], [[George Braque]] and [[Henry Matisse]]. <ref> [http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1479 Oxford University Press] </ref> | + | Robert Delaunay’s critical role in establishing a fully abstract idiom immediately before World War I continues to assure for him an important place in 20th-century art, however much his reputation remains overshadowed by that of his contemporaries, such as [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Georges Braque]] and [[Henri Matisse]]. <ref> [http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1479 Oxford University Press] </ref> |