Video: Sonia Delaunay is the first female artist to be awarded a solo exhibition in her lifetime at the Louvre
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Sonia Delaunay was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine, grew up in Russia, and became famous in Europe. Her talent is truly multifaceted: she painted pictures, designed clothes and shoes, created theatrical costumes, tuned cars, illustrated books, weaved carpets, etc. Sonia Delaunay is considered the founder of a new direction in avant-garde painting - Orphism, and the greatest master of art deco.
She was born in 1885 in Ukraine and at birth received the name Sara Elievna Stern. From the age of 5, the girl was brought up in the family of Heinrich Terk's uncle, a successful St. Petersburg lawyer, and since then she began to call herself Sonya Terk. The girl was engaged in painting, in which she showed noticeable success from an early age. In a private school in Germany, she received a classical art education, and during the holidays she traveled around Europe, getting acquainted with the best collections of museums.
At the age of 20, Sonya moved to Paris, where she continued to study painting at the Académie de la Palette. She moved in the circle of French bohemia and communicated with prominent painters of her time. At the age of 22, her work has already been exhibited at the Notre-Dame Chante gallery in Paris. In the same 1908, at the insistence of her family, she married a German collector, gallery owner and critic V. Ude, but a year later she left him for a young abstract artist Robert Delaunay. Under this name she became famous in Europe.
During this period, Sonia Delaunay, in addition to painting, was carried away by the creation of drawings on fabric, embroidery and interior design. Together with her husband, they founded a new direction in art, the name of which was given by Guillaume Apollinaire - "Orphism", or "Simultanism". They defined it as "the movement of color in light."
By interweaving geometric shapes and concentric "solar circles", they created bright and dynamic compositions that convey the energy of movement and all the subtleties of color combinations. The marriage of Sonya and Robert was not only a happy family union, but also a productive creative tandem. Sonya said about her husband: "He gave me a shape, and I gave him a color."
Sonya's first experience in design was a blanket for her son, which she sewed from colorful patches. The combination of abstract patterns, which she called "simultaneous contrasts", seemed to her an original find for fashion design. She soon embodied her ideas in a collection of dresses and coats in the art deco style. It was a practical implementation of her theory of "simultaneity" - creating the effect of movement using contrasting colors placed side by side. Color, light, dynamism and simultaneity were the main commandments of the creativity of Sonia and Robert Delaunay.
Delaunay's acquaintance and cooperation with Sergei Diaghilev became productive: Sonya created sketches of costumes and scenery for his theatrical productions, and Diaghilev helped her open her own Fashion House in Madrid - Casa Sonia, and later Delaunay in Paris. She was proclaimed the leading representative of the art deco style, and her main finds were considered "a balance of volume and color and a great sense of rhythm."
In 1963 Sonia Delaunay donated 117 of her paintings and Robert's to France. A year later, her personal exhibition took place in the Louvre - the first lifetime exposition among women artists. In 1975, at the age of 90, Sonia Delaunay received the highest award in France - the Order of the Legion of Honor.
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