1928
gouache
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1928 gouache by Robert Delaunay, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This drawing shows eight stick-figure dancers. Their arms are out wide, like they’re holding something. Each figure wears a bright, blocky costume made of big colored shapes—red, blue, yellow, and green. The background is plain, but the costumes stand out. The figures are all the same size, even though they’re in a line. The colors don’t match real clothes. Instead, they look like flat patches. The artist wrote notes in French about how to mix colors for the costumes. Try looking up gouache next to see how this soft, matte paint works.
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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