‘Endless Rhythm’ also known as ‘Rythme Sans fin’ (1934) Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay painted this oil on canvas to ‘explore the belief that color is a thing in itself with its own powers of expression and form.’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Delaunay).

His ‘new and individual use of pictorial rhythms and colour harmonies had an immediate appeal to the senses and, combined with poetic subject matter, distinguished him from the more orthodox Cubist painters.’ (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/156349/Robert-Delaunay).

The dynamic effect and impression of movement Delaunay captured in his art reflects his desire to express ‘the effects of colour and light when they are not bound to an object.’ (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/433206/Orphism).

In his own words, written in a letter to August Macke (1912) Robert Delaunay says ‘For me, every man distinguishes himself by his essence his personal movement, as opposed to that which is universal.’ Because ‘Discerning the quality of rhythms is a movement, and the essential quality of painting is representation the movement of vision which functions in objectivizing itself toward reality. That is the essential of art, and its greatest profoundness.’ (Both quotes from: ://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/delaunay.html).

You can see the original painting at the Tate Museum: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/delaunay-endless-rhythm-t01233

See more ‘Rhythms’ and plenty more artworks by Robert Delaunay at Wiki Paintings and Wikimedia Commons: http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/robert-delaunay

Image Source: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/delaunay-endless-rhythm-t01233