Windows Open

Robert Delaunay, 1912

Windows Open is an oil-on-canvas painting that Robert Delaunay made in 1912 as part of his Windows series. By then he had moved away from depicting the visible world, although a faint green shape near the centre is said to be a nearly vanishing trace of the Eiffel Tower. Delaunay drew on the geometric fragmentation of analytic cubism, yet the picture feels very different from that style: its structure rests on translucent, prismatic colour that sets up planes and volumes without hard outlines. He put his thinking plainly in 1913: line sets limits, while colour produces depth, not perspectival or successive but simultaneous, along with form and movement. That conviction lies behind the work's Orphic character, in which light and colour become the main engine of the image. The painting is held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Painter: Robert Delaunay
Date: 1912
Museum: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City

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