Sonia delaunay

1885-1979 Sonia Delaunay, the master of expressive color, used a spectrum of brightly contrasting colors to achieve brilliant effects in all aspects of her art. Her fashion-based approach to the ly…

Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, Cooper-Hewitt Museum Sonia Delaunay

Oil on canvas. Sonia Delaunay was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric…

Catalogue showing original fabric designs by Sonia Delaunay together with a selection of hand-coloured pochoirs. All available from Goldmark Gallery.

Who Was Sonia Delaunay? Who was Sonia Delaunay? She was an avant-garde artist , a pioneering textile-designer , a woman whose influence extended to some of the biggest names in 20th-century art (to name but a couple: Chagall and Klee). However, Delaunay wasn’t just an artist or a woman with a

This past weekend I finally attended an exhibition I’ve been waiting to see for over a month now, Sonia Delaunay’s Color Moves, at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Sonia Delaunay is…

Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Her remarkably diverse and interconnected body of work focused on the primacy of color and a synthesis of the arts. Painter, artisan, and designer, she embraced modernity and harnessed the creative power of collaboration in the realms of fashion, textiles, interiors, books, mosaics, and tapestries. Living Art comprises almost 200 objects secured from major international lenders, reflecting Delaunay’s…

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