1779
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Iphis is a 1779 ink by Robert Delaunay, a Romanticism work, depicting Aeneas, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a man in a toga pointing to a small altar. His face looks calm but his gesture feels urgent. The lines are sharp and clean, no blurring. Robert used a trick common back then. He made the light hit one side of the man’s face but leave the other half dark. That’s called chiaroscuro, or “light-dark” in Italian. It makes the scene feel deeper, like a stage. Check out how the altar’s flame flickers upward. See the tiny flames and smoke. If you like this, look up Rembrandt’s drypoints next.
Robert Delaunay was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
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