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Five) and round types, Moon No. 2 (figure three. 6), the [ one hundred and one ] flow (into Abstraction) 3. five. Robert Delaunay, round kinds, Moon no. 1, 1913. Â�Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner Stiftung. everlasting mortgage to Stätische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. three. 6. Robert Delaunay, round types, Moon no. 2, 1913. Oil on canvas, eighty one x sixty five cm. Kunstmuseum, Bonn. three. 7 (facing page). Robert repeating vertical leaf-shaped bands, each one leaning a bit to the best, push Â�Delaunay, round kinds, opposed to the outer edges in their vertically orientated rectilinear helps, forming 1913. Tempera and oil on Â�canvas, sixty five x fifty four cm. KunstÂ� museum, Berne. three. eight (above, left). Robert triangles within the 4 corners of every portray. The solar work and the Moon work, every one of their means, meticulously craft the relation of painted form to literal form, all of the whereas keeping apart sluggish from quick, colour from shape, surprise from absorption. it's those contrasting Â�Delaunay, round types, kinds and speeds of sunshine, of the “sun” and of the “moon,” that Delaunay distin- 1913. Tempera and oil on guishes in those work. eleven but looking back, and for the entire good fortune and Â�canvas, sixty five x fifty four cm. (Verso: sophistication of those work, protecting “sun” except “moon” should have examine for stained glass window, “Visitation of the Virgin,” 1912. ) KunstÂ�museum, Berne. appeared the straightforward half. the true trick—a trick Delaunay doesn't fairly pull off until eventually the 1st Disk—lies in placing them again jointly. back, titles are vital. For the solar and Moon work now declare a con- three. nine (above, right). Robert dition of “simultaneity,” reuniting “sun” and “moon” in the total constitution Â�Delaunay, round kinds, of the tableau. yet regardless of the titles, what we see within the sunlight and Moon work Moon no. three, 1913. Wax on Â�canvas. 25 x 21 cm. deepest assortment. isn't really simultaneity in any respect, yet particularly compositions cleaved into starkly hostile aspects. This inner fracturing creates severe difficulties for Delaunay. For as soon as “sun” and “moon” divvy up pictorial house, they relinquish their hard-won grounding fit, stumbling again right into a form of default representational mode. this can be fairly glaring in round varieties, solar, Moon (Sun, Moon, Simultaneity No. 2) (figure three. 10), the place the curved earrings of the moon now relate too vaguely, [ one zero five ] stream (into Abstraction) too loosely, to the curved fringe of the tondo, wasting all inner relation to the periphery of the portray for this reason. Traversing a blue sky that gently fades into yellow sun, the moon seems now not as a round shape yet as a picture tired of the abstraction it as soon as held. round varieties, solar, Moon (Sun, Moon, Simultaneity No. 1) (figure three. eleven) doesn't fare far better, regardless of its transparent try and reÂ� turn on form via tightly becoming the moon into the higher left nook of the portray. If we comprise sunlight, Tower, plane (figure three. 12) within the sequence, as a few do (I have robust doubts), the failure is whole: Delaunay provides up altogether at the back-and-forth dynamic among painted form and structural form and therefore, with the go back to unambiguous illustration, on natural portray.