Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1914
Prismes électriques by Sonia Delaunay

Inspired by technological and mechanical innovations of the time, this key work of the Orphism movement sought to explore the effects of color and light in abstract art. Delaunay’s masterful command of color and her pioneering use of abstraction would prove to be enduringly influential.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
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People
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Orphism
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- Ideas
- abstraction, color, light, Orphism, technology
- People
- Sonia Delaunay
- Works
- Prismes électriques
Echoes across time
- 1982 · L’Art et l’ordinateur in Paris
- 1984 · Chromas by Edward Zajec
- 1991 · Les Artistes et la lumiere, exhibition held in Rheims
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