Simultaneous Windows (2nd Motif, 1st Part) (Les fenêtres simultanées [2e nitufm 1re partie]), 1912Robert Delaunay's attraction to indows and window views linked to the Symbolists' use of glass panes as metaphors for the transition from internal to external states
Simultaneous Windows series. In these works, Delaunay juxtaposed and overlaid translucent contrasting complementary colors to create a harmonic composition.
Cuilaume Apollinaire wrote a poem about these paintings and coined the word Orphism to describe Delaunay's endeavor, which he believed was as independent of descriptive reality as was music (the name derives from Orpheus, the mythological lyre player). Although
Simultaneous Windows (2nd Motif, 1st Part) contains a vestigal green profile of the Eiffel Tower, it is one of the artist's last salutes to representation before his leap to complete abstraction.
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