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NEW WORLDS – Spielende Formen
From 1911 onwards, an intense artistic exchange began between what were at the time two enemies, Germany and France: Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, the founders of the artist group ›Der Blaue Reiter‹, made the acquaintance of French painter Robert Delaunay. In his art, Delaunay pursued an »activation of the eyes«. The colours in his works are animated through complementary contrasts and fragmented image areas. Caught up in the maelstrom of colour, the objects depicted become secondary as the colours come into play. Work series such as Delaunay’s ›Window‹ paintings not only inspired Franz Marc, for now colour emerged as an element that linked the group across national boundaries. »People like to call this universality«, wrote Delaunay to Marc in 1913, »synchronicity that expands beyond Europe, that stretches out from man into the universe.«
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