How Macke's Art was Influenced by Robert Delaunay

Answer 1

Macke's meeting with Robert Delaunay in Paris in 1912 was to be a sort of revelation for him. Delaunay's chromatic Cubism, which Apollinaire had called Orphism, influenced Macke's art from that point onwards. His Shops Windows can be considered a personal interpretation of Delaunay's Windows, combined with the simultaneity of images found in Italian Futurism.

Answer 2

Delaunay’s original approach to color and arrangement of forms encouraged the development of abstract art in the 1920’s.

He influenced artists such as Paul Klee, Vasili Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Marc Chagall before World War I