Robert delaunay homage to bleriot

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        1. Homage to Blériot is a tempera on canvas painting by French painter Robert Delaunay, from It is held at the Kunstmuseum Basel.
        2. 10 facts about robert delaunay
        3. "In honor of the Bleriot" is a perfect demonstration of this sonority.
        4. Tribute to Blériot is a work by Robert Delaunay created in , part of the Orphism movement.

          5. Homage to Blériot

          Painting by Robert Delaunay

          Homage to Blériot is a tempera on canvas painting by French painter Robert Delaunay, from It is held at the Kunstmuseum Basel.[1] Another version of the same painting is held at the Museum of Grenoble.[2] These paintings belong to the series Disks.[3]

          Description

          This canvas celebrates the French aviation pioneer and constructor Louis Blériot, in a typical simultaneist composition, by notably representing symbols of progress, namely a biplane, seen flying above the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, at the right, and a propeller, at the left.

          However, the inscription left below the canvas reads "first simultaneous solar disks form" to the great constructor Blériot, suggesting that the painting is dedicated to Blériot, as the constructor and not as the pilot of the biplane.

          The composition is filled with the typical orphic colourful solar disks and geometric shapes, with influences also from neo-impres