Sonia Delaunay: Living Art at Bard Graduate Center is a gently curated exhibition that treats its subject with reverence. It opens with a timeline and examples of Delaunay’s personal branding such as ...
If you think you’re unfamiliar with the Odessa-born, French Jewish avant-garde artist Sonia Delaunay, you might change your mind as you view the swirling colors, intricate geometric patterns, and ...
Fashion. Textiles. Interior design. Printmaking. Mosaics. Painting. Sonia Delaunay did it all. An artist and entrepreneur born in 1885, she defied the expectations of her era to forge a successful ...
PARIS — In our period of the rampant merging of art and fashion, it is refreshing to revisit where this hybridization more or less began in the modernism period with the first retrospective since 1967 ...
If you watch fashion like I do, you’ll have noticed that the sheer volume of trends has produced a sort of nostalgia-driven decade mania. Today almost every era is simultaneously in, though there are ...
Few restaurants are grander or more reassuring than The Delaunay, the vast semi-subterranean brasserie in Covent Garden that serves the best schnitzel in Zone 1. But the morning after the Prime ...
Long ReadDuring the interwar years, painting was not enough to sustain the Delaunay couple. So Sonia Delaunay began designing clothes and opened a fashion house in their Paris apartment. In Paris, the ...
The avant-garde artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) straddled the lines between fine art and decorative art as well as geographic borders. “While it is tempting to read [her] rich oeuvre through the ...
Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named by the artists creating the work, but rather by a critic. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 10 years old. Gloria Swanson went ...
From knitted swimwear and bright ballgowns to the pure colour and rhythm of her paintings, the nonstop invention of abstract pioneer Sonia Delaunay feels timeless A bathing suit, a lampshade, six ...