Delaunay art

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

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…

Sonia Delaunay

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For this project we were all about circles. Well, it's a little more complicated than that. Sonia Delaunay Robert Delaunay My 6-12 year olds looked at the work of Sonia and Robert Delaunay, (1885-1979) and (1885-1941). They were part of the bumping modern art scene in Paris at the turn of last century. They experimented with cubism and fauvism before founding the movement called 'orphism', which is all about rhythmic shapes and the interaction between colors and the relationships they…

Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) - Air, iron, water, 1936/37 : detail