Nu à la toilette

Robert Delaunay, along with his wife Sonia, co-founded Orphism or Orphic Cubism. This style was an offshoot of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors. Delaunay believed that painting is purely visual art that depends on intellectual elements, and perception is in the impact of colored light on the eye. At first, Nu à la toilette, roughly translated as Nude at Her Dressing Table, looks like one Delaunay's purely abstract works. Then the eye picks out the black boot clad leg leading up into the feminine form in sweeps of circles of blue, white, and beige with blond hair spilling to the middle of her back. She rests on a chair leaning over her dressing table with a book and mirror before her while a night sky hangs in the background.