air iron and water robert delaunay

air iron and water robert delaunayIn this gigantic mural, Robert Delaunay presents a synopsis of the major motifs and themes running through his artistic work. This work was created to decorate the French Railway Pavilion at the Paris World Fair. It is a work of the Orphic movement, a mixture of cubism and abstraction, and an important avant garde movement in the early 20th century. Delaunay also painted Champs de Mars, the Red Tower and Eiffel Tower and Garden of the Champs de Mars,

Marianne von Werefkin has often drawn inspiration from the rural areas of Germany

In this painting from 1911

While Vincent Van Gogh had previously painted the sunflowers in very close tones

one of them with a plane and the other two with scrapers

The painting shows his desire to go beyond the limits of figurative representation to explore the expressive possibilities of pure forms and colours

it is one of the artist's best known works

he wrote in a letter: "I saw in this reaper - a vague figure who struggles like a devil in the heat to get through his work - I saw in it the image of death

Here he pays tribute to the splendor of Estaque

This impressionnist painting is singular in the preponderant role that the artist gives to the figure in the landscape

The work is part of the gemstone series which also includes Amethyst and Topaz

mortality and the celebration of young life

creating a striking visual effect