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

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

iCanvas Rythme 1938 by Sonia Delaunay (Canvas)

Sonia Delaunay. Plate (folio 8) from 10 Origin. 1942. Various Authors, Jean (Hans) Arp, Max Bill, Vasily Kandinsky, Alberto Magnelli. Linoleum cut from a portfolio of six linoleum cuts, three woodcuts, and one lithograph. composition (irreg.): 10 9/16 × 7 15/16" (26.9 × 20.2 cm); page (each): 10 5/8 × 8 1/4" (27 × 21 cm). Allianz-Verlag, Zürich. Unidentified. Purchase. 616.1949.3. Illustrated Book. Drawings & Prints

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…

Sonia Delaunay