Femme nue lisant (Nude Woman Reading) (1920)

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"Femme nue lisant (Nude Woman Reading)" is an evocative artwork created by Robert Delaunay in 1920. This painting exemplifies Delaunay's unique style, which forms part of the Orphism art movement, noted for its strong use of color and geometric shapes. In this piece, Delaunay portrays a woman engrossed in reading, a simple yet intimate moment captured amidst a whirlwind of vibrant colors and abstract forms.The subject is depicted with a deeply abstract style, where the curves of her body and the book she holds melting into swirling, dynamic patterns. The juxtaposition of vivid hues and circular forms pulls the viewer’s eye across the canvas, creating a sense of movement that seems to orbit around the serene figure of the reading woman.What makes Delaunay’s work distinct here is his ability to use color to evoke emotion and motion, making the woman's act of reading not just a moment of quietude but a sensory explosion, intertwining her intellectual escape with a literal escape into the realms of color and form.

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Robert Delaunay was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.

Robert was born on April 12, 1885, in Paris. In 1902, after secondary education, he apprenticed in a studio for theater sets in Belleville. In 1903 he started painting and by 1904 was exhibiting.