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Sonia Delaunay (French: [sɔnja dəlonɛ]; 14 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist born to Jewish parents, who spent most of her working life in Paris.She was born in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine, and was formally trained in Russia and Germany, before moving to France and expanding her practice to include textile, fashion, and set design.
Robert and Sonia Delaunay where at the resort of San Sebastián, in Spain, when the First World War overtook them by surprise. They remained in Spain , staying for some months in Madrid . They decided to move to Portugal , settling in the northern village of Vila do Conde , near Porto , where they lived from June 1915 to March 1916.
It was through Guillaume Apollinaire, a mutual friend, that Cendrars was to meet Sonia and her husband Robert Delaunay, members of the Parisian avant-garde, leading exponents of cubism, and inventors of the term Simultaneity. The Delaunays had coined the word from their study of Chevreul's laws of simultaneous contrast. [11]
Delaunay took inspiration of a photograph that he saw in a magazine of a rugby game for the painting series of which this was the second made. [2] The painting depicts a game where a rugby team from Cardiff, in Wales, is participating, facing an unnamed adversary, possibly a French team. Six rugby players are shown in the lower part of the work ...
Sonia Delaunay and her husband were the founders of Orphism. In the Art Deco era, Hildreth Meière made large-scale mosaics and was the first woman honored with the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects. [60] Tamara de Lempicka, also of this era, was an Art Deco painter from Poland. Sr.
Robert Delaunay (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ dəlonɛ]; 12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; [1] who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.
Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) and Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), French artists; husband and wife North Manchester General Hospital , formerly Delaunays workhouse, in Manchester, England Topics referred to by the same term
Charles Delaunay on 52nd Street, New York City, October 1946 (photograph by William P. Gottlieb) Charles Delaunay (18 January 1911 – 16 February 1988) was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France.