Bright Wave Painting

Cubism

XX century

(between 1907 and 1919)

The main features of the Cubism are:

The use of elementary geometrical forms.

It's a reflection on the form.

Sonia Delaunay, a cubist painter.

He who knows how to appreciate colour relationships, the influence of one colour on another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised and infinitely diverse imagery(Sonia Delaunay)

She was born in Gradizhske in the Ukraine. But she moved to St Petersburg early lo live with her uncle, Henry Terk, an important Jewish lawyer.

They spent their summers in Finland and traveled in Europe. She knew art museums and galleries.

When she was 18, at her teacher's suggestion, she was sent to art school in Germany. And she moved to Paris in 1905

She married Robert Delaunay in 1909. He was a regular visitor at Uhde's gallery (The gallery of her 1st husband)

In 1911, she made a patchwork quilt for Charles' crib, her son. This quilt was created spontaneously and it evoqued her cubist conceptions: she used geometry and colour

In 1914, they travelled to the Iberian Peninsula, while the First World War raged in Europe. The most important work from that period is the Market at Minho

In 1920 Sonia returned to Paris and in 1924 she opened a fashion studio. Her work extends to painting, textile and stage set design.

Boutique Simultane

She designed the wardrobe for the Russian ballet.

Shawls for Cleopatra from Diaghilev (1918)

She designed the wardrobe for different plays

Scene from The Gas Heart by Tristan Tzara. Costumes designed by Sonia Delaunay, Theatre Michel, Paris, July 6-7, 1923

She died in 1979 in Paris. She was the first woman 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 use of geometrical abstraction and the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings and clothing.

These are some of her works:

UntitledComposition aux disques

Simultaneous Dresses.
The three womenSimultan