Sonia DELAUNAY
(1885 – 1979)
The visionary of living color
“Color is the skin of the world”
Why is it fascinating?
A pioneer of modern abstraction, she transforms color into a total language: chromatic rhythms, dancing circles, optical vibrations. She explores the expressive power of pure color.
She applies her research to all areas: painting, fashion, design, objects, books, decor. She makes color explode everywhere: on canvas, on fabric, on the body.
Sonia Delaunay is a total creator who mixes art, fashion, design, furniture, poetry before anyone else.
A very contemporary work
Sonia Delaunay is a polymorphic artist ahead of her time. She collaborates with poets (Apollinaire, Cendrars, Tzara, etc.), fashion designers, and architects, blurring the boundaries between the arts.
A geometric, vibrant style based on simultaneous contrasts that speaks to fans of graphic design, textile designers and illustrators.
She leaves behind a body of work deeply marked by the energy of color, the movement of the modern world and the fierce desire to make art a universal, living, total language.
Why is it presented here?
Because it makes abstraction lively, joyful, and mobile. An antidote to the gloom.
Because she was always ahead of her time, because she blurred the lines between art and life.
As the founder, with her husband Robert Delaunay, of the Orphism movement (a colorful and dynamic abstraction inspired by the light and rhythms of modernity), she has become a legendary artist, acclaimed by international museums. She is the first woman to have had a retrospective at the Louvre during her lifetime.
Where to see it?
- Pompidou Center, Paris
- Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
- Museum of Grenoble
- Tate Modern, London
- MoMA, New York
- Guggenheim, New York