Topic 1 - Homage to Bleriot, Delauney, 1911

when was it painted?

1911-12

who painted it?

delauney

influenced by…

cubism

he wanted to develop a more ….. version of cubism

lyrical and dynamic

both him and his wife ‘invented’ what style that was an off-shoot of cubism?

orphism

what is orphism?

exploration of the abstraction of colour and pure colour

the work is drawn upon colour theories of…

19th C. colour theorist Chevreul

who else was influenced by Chevreul?

Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and Fauvists

what did delauney do to come up with the idea of ‘simultaneous disks’ of colour?

used the cubist method of deconstructing objects

who did he meet and how did it help with his progression in the work?

futurists in 1909

Cottington on Cubism argued that his…

“interest in simultaneity overlapped with them”

who was Blériot?

a pilot who flew across the Channel becoming a public hero in France

what was the flight a symbol of?

the technical possibilities of modernity

different coloured disks create a sensation of….

light and movement

repeated reference to …. gives an energy to the painting

propellers

there is a reference to whose work in regards to the idea of the ‘conquest of the air’?

Picasso’s ‘Our Future is in Air’ 1912

what remains below which highlights the celebration of modernity and optimism about France’s technological future?

the Eiffel Tower

Delauney often painted the Eiffel Tower as if it were a…

rocket launching into space

what does Delauney move away from in regards to cubism?

• muted colours, opting for vibrancy

• more organic, curvilinear linework

there is reference to the circulatory nature of…

engines, wire wheels of early bi-planes and interlocking cogs

it is almost an replication of Blériot’s….

victory loops over paris given new aerial views of the city

Delauney referred to Blériot as the…

‘Great Constructor’