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Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay
Last week we framed the above poster we bought from Paris last year. It is the poster from Sonia Delaunay's homage at the National Center of Modern Art back in 1976 and we thought of doing a post about her work and life as we knew very little about Delaunay. We do not whether Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum listened us but their exhibition "Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay", (18th March - 5th June 2011) is certainly a good reason for art lovers to rediscover the vivid colors in her paintings and textiles.
Known primarily as an abstract painter and colorist, Sonia Delaunay applied her talents and theories to all areas of visual expression, including graphics, interiors, theater and film, fashion and textiles. A trademark of Delaunay's work is the sense of movement and rhythm created by the simultaneous contrasts of certain colors. This exhibition will focus on fashion designs from her own Atelier Simultané in Paris during the 1920s, as well as textiles designed for the Metz & Co. department store in Amsterdam in the 1930s. On view will be examples of designs, textiles, garments and photographs from the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, the Musée de l'Impression sur Etoffes in Mulhouse, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and private collections around Europe and the United States.
Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay is funded in part by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Coby Foundation, Ltd., The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, the Ehrenkranz Fund, and the Esme Usdan Exhibition Endowment Fund.
Additional support is provided by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Lisa S. Roberts, Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, the Consulate-General of The Netherlands, and The Felicia Fund.
