The artwork by modern artist Robert Delaunay depicts the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The painting is very abstract and expressive.

The Eiffel Tower

Robert Delaunay

Dimensions:
H 81cm W 116cm
Year:
1909-1910/11
Place:
KunsthalleKarlsruhe@ZKM

Description

A landmark not only of the city of Paris, but also of modernism, Robert Delaunay devoted a long series of works to the Eiffel Tower, which was erected for the 1889 Universal Exposition. At the time when Braque and Picasso were developing cubism, Delaunay used the motif of the spectacular steel skeleton construction to illustrate the dynamics of human perception. The entire picture is composed of facets, and adds up to different perspectives on the object — as though the viewer were a strolling flâneur.

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