Endless Rhythm (1934) | Robert Delaunay | Abstract Geometric Art Print | Wall Frame

Endless Rhythm 1934 is a large, vertically orientated painting by the French artist Robert Delaunay. Three coloured disks painted on a pale blue ground move rhythmically in a strong diagonal from the bottom left to the top right of the canvas. The main body of each disk is made up of thick undulating black and white lines. The black line connects with the white causing a twisting effect which sends the eye around the composition in an endless loop. A further sense of movement is created by a central line of red, greens, blue and yellow which ripples through the centre of the disks, disrupting but also linking their forms. The blue and yellow of this line is echoed in the thin lines of each colour traced delicately around the bottom and top disks. The round centre of each disk is split into two hemispheres of alternate colour – the soft blue of the ground and a muted grey. The intersection of these hemispheres forms the only straight line in an otherwise soft, curving composition.

Endless Rhythm focuses on geometric shapes and the use of contrasting colour. Delaunay’s interest in the intersections of music, visual art and colour theory had long dominated his work. In December 1912 he described the emphasis of his newly developed abstract art (called simultanism and rechristened orphism by his friend, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire), which was derived from his earlier cubist style: ‘the simultaneity of colours through simultaneous contrasts and through all the (uneven) quantities that emanate from the colours, in accordance with the way they are expressed in the movement represented – that is the only reality one can construct through painting’.

This professionally remastered artwork comes in two variations:

1 .Matte: 12 X 18 inch high definition quality print - 300 gsm Matte Finish Art Paper Rolled in a Shipping Tube.

2. Frame: 14 X 20 inch finest quality photo frame - Black Frame Finish.