Sonia Delaunay: A Life of Colour
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TextPublication details: . Museum of Modern Art, New York 2017Description: 34pISBN: 978-1-63345-024-0Subject(s): Art | Biographies | Biography | English Literature | Fashion Designer | Painter | Picture Book | Sonia Delaunay | Textile Designer | TheatreDDC classification: 927.5 Summary: Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), painter and textile, theater, and fashion designer, made enormous contributions to the development of abstraction in the early 1910s. In this new book, Delaunay and her six-year-old son Charles have a fantastical adventure in their car, modeled after her 1925 design for a Citroën convertible. They glide into a landscape of colors and shapes, as if they’ve driven into one of her paintings. Delaunay helps Charles understand her artistic process by asking him what shapes and colors he recognizes along the way, and Charles realizes that his mother’s thoughts about art permeate every aspect of their life.
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Ektara Trust | 927.5/MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2546 |
Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), painter and textile, theater, and fashion designer, made enormous contributions to the development of abstraction in the early 1910s. In this new book, Delaunay and her six-year-old son Charles have a fantastical adventure in their car, modeled after her 1925 design for a Citroën convertible. They glide into a landscape of colors and shapes, as if they’ve driven into one of her paintings. Delaunay helps Charles understand her artistic process by asking him what shapes and colors he recognizes along the way, and Charles realizes that his mother’s thoughts about art permeate every aspect of their life.
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