The most intriguing aspect of Robert Delaunay’s art is his use of color as an independent force.

Instead of using color to define objects, he used it to create sensations of light, movement, and rhythm. This made him one of the founders of Orphism, an art movement in which colors interact with one another.

He regarded color almost like music and conceived his paintings as “rhythms of color.”

In his cityscapes, towers, and abstract compositions, he used pure, vibrant, circular fields of color to show the constant change of light.

With this approach, he moved away from Cubism and opened an important path toward Abstract Art.