Resumen de Envisioning Abstraction: The Simultaneity of Robert Delaunay's First Disk
The First Disk of 1913 marks the culmination of Robert Delaunay’s pioneering move into full abstraction following his break with Cubism in 1912. Having rejected Cubism’s insistence on the conceptual (what we know of an object) over the perceptual (how we see an object), Delaunay sought to ground painting in a reformulated understanding of vision consistent with modern optical theory. From his 1912 Window series to The First Disk, Delaunay’s paintings articulate a model of vision in which knowledge and sensation necessarily cooperate in the act of viewing—ultimately demanding that the viewer literally learn how to see.
