Philomene sonia delaunay biography

  • Sonia Delaunay (November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) was a.
  • Sonia Delaunay was a French artist born to Jewish parents, who spent most of her working life in Paris.
  • Philomène is a highly important painting from Sonia Delaunay's first breakthrough years in Paris.

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    The first woman to have her personal exhibition in the Louvre. The fashion queen, who made the dresses and cars of Parisians her canvases. Together with her husband she created the movement reflecting “the motion of colour in the light”. Sonia Delaunay got through a good, fruitful, vibrant and happy time.  How a Girl from Odesa Became a French Artist A small Jewish girl born on 14 November 1885 wasn’t Sonia Delaunay, but Sarah Stern. Everybody agrees with this fact, but other things are rather dubious. Half of sources inform of the town of Hradyzk in Poltava oblast to be Sarah’s birthplace, others say it was Odesa. The art expert Yevhen Demenok conducted a real detective investigation. He studied all her available biographies, gathered all the possible information, made the filing clerks of Poltava and Odesa do their best, and at last, he found evidences that indeed, Sarah Stern was born in Odesa (the letter from the book of births of the Odesan Rabbinate dated 1855 made things clea

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    Exhibition dates: 15th April – 9th August 2015

    Curators: curated at Tate Modern bygd Juliet Bingham, Curator International Art, with Juliette Rizzi, Assistant Curator.

     

     

    The EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay at Tate Modern

     

     

    One of my favourite female artists of all time. Up there with Georgia O’Keeffe, Lee Krasner, Agnes Martin and Louise Bourgeois.

    The early portrait paintings are a revelation. And then, how avant-garde her Electric Prisms paintings, fashion designs, theatre costumes, embroidering poetry onto fabric, turning her apartment into a three-dimensional collage… the very förkroppsligande of a “progressive woman synonymous with modernity.”

    I have always loved her creativity, vibrancy, colours and asymmetric, musical rhythm – her photogeneity, in the sense of her works producing or emitting light, like an organism does. They seem to grab you, like a jolt of electricity, saying “Wake up!” and “Look at

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    Sonia Delaunay

    Sarah Stern

    Sonia Delaunay as Cleopatra

    Sonia Delaunay

    Sarah Stern

    • November 14, 1885; Gradizhsk, Ukraine  
    • December 5, 1979; Paris, France  
    • French,Russian,Jewish,Ukrainian
    • Orphism (Simultanism),Avant-garde
    • École de Paris
    • design,abstract
    • painting,design
    • Alfio Giuffrida
    • Académie de La Palette, Paris, France,Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany
    • Vadym Meller,Roman Selsky,Margit Selska
    • Robert Delaunay
    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Delaunay
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    Sonia Delaunay was born Sara Stern, the youngest of three children, to impoverished Jewish parents in Odesa, Ukraine. At five, she went to live with her mother's well-off brother, Henri Terk, and his wife in St. Petersburg, Russia. She received a good education, had access to great art collections, and traveled to Europe, spending summers in Finland. At sixteen, Delaunay's art teacher n