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wife of fellow artist Robert Delaunay. She spent
most of her life working in Paris, and was responsible
for co-founding the art form 'Orphism', a type of art
involving lots of bold colours and geometric shapes.
Sonja was born into a Jewish Ukrainian family, and moved
to St Petersburg in Russia at the age of seven.
She first thought of this type of geometric cubist art when her son was born in 1911, and she decided to make him a blanket out of bits of fabric similar to those she had seen in the houses of people in Russia when she was younger.
O R P H I S M
Orphism, also known as Simultaneism, derived from Cubism, and was named in 1912 by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire.
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| Oil painting 'Triptych' by Sonja Delaunay, 1963 |
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| Oil painting 'Rhythm Colour' by Sonja Delaunay, 1964 |
Orphism thumbnail sketches
Kia ora Natasha, I seem to have forgotten to post a comment on your blog last night. Apologies.
ReplyDeleteYour most detailed and finished thumbnail sketch is probably your most successful. the way the lines lead into the circles is a successful device visually.
The half finished nature of your oil pastel piece means that you have this cool piece of negative space between the red circle and the blue rectangle below it. That is also something you could take and develop further visually.
See you on Thursday, thanks for all of your hard work so far.
Thank you Mrs Clemence!
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