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Windows is a series of paintings created between 1912 and 1913 by the French painter Robert Delaunay. The paintings are oil and wax on canvas, and they mark Delaunay's turn towards abstraction and interest in color.
The primary characteristics of early English glass are deep rich colours, particularly deep blues and ruby reds, often with a streaky and uneven colour, which adds to their appeal; their mosaic quality, being composed of an assembly of small pieces; the importance of the iron work, which becomes part of the design; and the simple and bold style of the painting of faces and details.
Windows in the West by Avril Paton. Watercolour on paper, 1993. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. Windows in the West is a 1993 watercolour painting by the Scottish artist Avril Paton. The painting was bought by the city of Glasgow for the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, and is currently on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and ...
The windows depicted the history of the Hebrew people, and finally connected the Biblical Kings with the reign of the window's patron, Louis IX. The King was depicted in the windows carrying the crown of Christ. [13] The windows of Sainte-Chapelle are believed to have been made by three different workshops, with slightly different styles. [13]
Guler's rich colors were achieved by hand-painting sections of glass (from France, Germany and the US) with glass paints: ground glass mixed with iron oxide, yellow stain and other colorants; then firing the painted glass in a kiln. Windows made with this detailed painting are known as Munich-style stained-glass, or Munich windows. [3]
Medieval stained glass is the colored and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows were the major pictorial art form, particularly in northern France, Germany and England, where windows tended to be larger than in southern Europe (in Italy, for example, frescos were more common).
Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Windows on the City, 1912, Kunsthalle Hamburg. Orphism or Orphic Cubism, a term coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, was an offshoot of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors, influenced by Fauvism, the theoretical writings of Paul Signac, Charles Henry and the dye chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul.
19 stained-glass windows for Metz Cathedral: 1958 to 1968: Metz Cathedral: Image online [231] Artist at Easel: 1959: Private collection Image online [232] Le Juif a la Torah: 1959: Private collection Image online [233] Commedia dell'arte: 1959: Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt, Foyer Image online [234] Self-portrait: 1959 to 1960: Image in Bouquet ...