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Delaunay inspired by Blériot

You may remember our article about Sonia Delaunay, who in the 1920s designed dresses with matching body colors for the car. She was married to Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) was also a very competent artist. In the early days of the previous century he experimented with Cubism. His style evolved in what is known as ‘Orphism’, a mixture of cubism with circles and a sensation of bright colors. Five years after Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel from Calais to Dover (on July 25, 1909), Robert Delaunay was inspired by this historic flight and in 1914 painted this 'Hommage à Blériot', a masterpiece that symbolizes the early aviators.
(painting collection Kunstmuseum Basel)

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#5 Peter Dew 2012-01-23 06:24

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6139/6034423963_1b58f5e655_z.jpg

What about the Citroen ?

#4 Peter Dew 2012-01-22 15:29

http://www.allsportauto.com/english/matra_530_sonia_delaunay.php

follow the above link for Sonia and Matra

#3 Nigel Hamlin-Wright 2012-01-22 10:56

…..just a note that may be of interest to devotees of the genre; in 1990, the Accademia Italiana hosted an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and other works of art, entitled ‘Futurism in Flight’, to coincide with the Farnborough Airshow of that year.
The catalogue presents the Italian artists response to man’s conquest of the air and is one of the most exquisitely beautiful and stimulating publications that I’ve ever seen and illustrates everything deeply envious about the Italian approach to style.
I would also recommend Robert Wohl’s ‘A Passion for Wings; Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908 – 1918’ as another rich source of illustrative material for the period.

#2 Peter Dew 2012-01-22 10:55

I would have said both aeroplanes in the bottom of the picture were mono-plane types, but I wondered about Delaunay. Were Robert and Sonia related to the Delaunay-Belleville automobile family, and thus perhaps the source of the Tsar's love of them, Sonia having been raised in St Petersburg ?

#1 Reg Winstone 2012-01-22 04:08

It's worth noting that, despite their titles, the only aeroplane predominantly featured in this series of paintings is of a Voisin 10m cellular biplane.

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