One of the things Robert Delaunay was fond of saying about himself is that before him painters just used color for coloring. Perception happens not on the canvas, but in the brain. Delaunay was captivated by Divisionist thinking. It inspired him to think about the relationship colors have to each other when placed next to each other on the canvas, independently of what image they were being used to create. He enlarged the blocks creating pronounced and abstracted visual effects. He realized that colors could complement each other in a way that could create emotional reactions in the viewer’s mind. What Delaunay leaved us are amazing paintings and colorful palettes that could give us inspiration.

In this A6 format book you can indulge yourself with 25 different color palettes obtained from the sampling of some of his works, through HEX, LAB and CMYK codes.

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