Plan

My art is Rhythms by Robert Delaunay, and I plan to make three of the same size bowls glazed to look like the split black and white circles.

Reflection

I started my final late, and realized how difficult it was to sculpt the bowls similar in a short amount of time. Once I saw this painting, I knew a way I could make this piece of art 3D.

I was drawn to this piece because I wanted an abstract piece, and found this one last minute. I didn't pick my artist on time, and searched museum websites for abstract 2d paintings.

These pieces were underglazed with black and white and not yet fired

Background

Robert Delaunay was a French artist that co-founded the Orphism art movement, using geometric shapes and vibrant colors. This painting is called Rhythm in English, but Rhythme in French. It was painted in 1934, when Robert was . His work after 1912 was abstract, and admired in Paris by many and was declared as Orphism by Apollinaire. He lived in .

Spain and Portugal during the first World War, and returned to his home in Paris in 1920. During a short period, he had changed his style to things like portraits and naked women reading but switched back to full abstraction in 1930. This piece is at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, and was one of the first oil paintings that Robert made when returning to the Orphism style.