Analysis of Robert Delaunay's Painting, Eiffel Tower

“Eiffel Tower” I’m going to critique a two- dimensional piece of art. This is a painting called “Eiffel Tower” and the artist is Robert Delaunay. It is a French painting painted in 1924. The media is oil on canvas. It was a gift to the Dallas Museum of Art from the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated in 1981. This painting consists of mostly curved and diagonal lines. The curved lines appear in the upper left quadrant where it forms a circular park that is broken into four sections. The curved lines are thick and short. The diagonal lines appear in the in all four quadrants (upper left quadrant, lower left quadrant, upper right quadrant and lower right quadrant) of the painting but mostly in the upper left quadrant (along with the curved lines) and in the center of the painting. They are mostly diagonal, long and skinny lines. The diagonal lines are part of the Eiffel Tower that is painted in the center of the painting. The shapes of this painting are planed and mostly inorganic. These angular shapes forms a triangle shape which gives the painting a masculine feel. The Eiffel Tower also has a little depth that creates a three- dimensional form. The color pallet of this painting is broad. It uses primary colors of red, yellow and blue. The painting also has secondary colors of orange, green and violet. The Eiffel Tower itself is painted mostly using the some adjacent colors of orange and red. The painting holds hue and not so much tints nor shades. It also does not consist of much greyness so it does not hold much value. This painting has both warm and cold color pallets. The warm colors are spotted on the Eiffel Tower where red and orange and yellow is evident. The cold colors of green, blue and violet are seen at what looks like that bottom of the Eiffel Tower that is the ground that surrounds the Eiffel Tower. This painting is not symmetrical, but it is well balanced. The visual weight is spread out well in the painting. The painting does not have a linear