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Biography
French painter, born in Paris. He started painting c.1904 and his early works move rapidly through the color theories of Chevreul, the space concepts of Cézanne and Braque, and his interest in optics. In 1912 he arrived at a formula of brilliantly colored abstractions with only the most tenuous roots in naturalistic observation. In 1909 he began the Eiffel Tower series. In 1911-1912 he exhibited with Der Blaue Reiter Group in Munich and in 1912 at Der Sturm Gallery in Berlin. This early contact with the German avant-garde, and especially the paintings and writings of Kandinsky, helped to make Delaunay one of the first French artists to embrace abstraction. He also joined the Cubists at the highly controversial Salon des Indépendants of 1911, where Apollinaire declared his painting the most important work in the show. Also in 1912 he began the Window series, in which pure planes of color, fractured by light, eliminate any vestiges of reality. In 1912 Apollinaire named the abstract experiments of Delaunay, Léger, Kupka, and others Orphism, a style based on the invention of new structures. In his Disk paintings of 1913 Delaunay abandoned even the pretense of subject, creating arrangements of vividly colored circles and shapes. Married the painter Sonia Terk in 1910 and they lived in Spain and Portugal during the First World War.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Novas Aquisições da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 11-08-1999 ~ 02-01-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 08-07-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Art Deco Berardo Collection, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-03-2007 ~ 14-10-2007
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo, Novas Aquisições, 2000 Published by Arte Ibérica
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo – Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 9728902034
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