With the people’s rejection of all beliefs and morals at the end of the 19th century, modernism was a new approach towards a desperate need to change how the world viewed life through science, politics, and art. The age of modernism gave birth to many varying types of artists, such as Robert Delaunay, who used his work as his own form of self-expression. Robert Delaunay, a French abstract painter, developed what is considered to be the first form of abstract art based purely on color. He was an influential artist who created his own sub-genre of paintings, known as Orphism, which became well known for the use of color and non-traditional depictions of perspective. The abandonment of traditional perspective drawings was influenced by Cubist…show more content… Born on April 12th, 1885, Robert Delaunay was born into an upper-class family for only four short years before his parents divorced. After the divorce, his aunt and uncle took him in as one of their own and raised him. Never being motivated or intrigued by the education that was provided for him, he finished high school and went off to be an apprentice at a studio for theater set design in Belleville, France, around 1902 and 1904. Continuing his work as a theater designer, he began to develop an interest in painting. During these pre-mature years, he painted with the influences of neo-impressionist form; Paul Cézanne’s artwork as well was an inspiration for Delaunay in his progressive development as an artist. Other than theater set design, he had no formal training in the artistic world, but it came naturally to him. In 1904, he was first exhibited at the Salon Independents, formally being the youngest exhibitor known. From there he began to experiment more with pointillist concepts and altering them to incorporate a sense of movement with the use of color. Then, from 1907 to 1908 he went off to serve in the military in Laon. Upon returning to Paris, he found connections to cubist
