Painter and designer of Ukrainian origin. Together with her husband Robert Delaunay, they were great representatives of abstract art and creators of simultaneism, an innovative and original artistic language with which they wanted to transfer to painting the scientific theories of color, specifically the one referred to as to the simultaneous contrast of colors that led them to the dissolution of form through light and led them towards abstraction.
She studied art in St. Petersburg, and then traveled to Paris, where she continued her education, delving into the post-impressionist works of Van Gogh or Gauguin that made her a lover of colors, movement and light.
Sonia explored beyond fine art and began to translate her work into other disciplines such as fashion design, book design, and even car design. In 1913 he began to draw fabrics and create fabrics, specializing in the application of colors, creation of contrasts and mosaics, applying his art to everyday objects such as cushions, vests, dresses, decorations, tapestries, etc.
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She opened a store in Paris, a decoration boutique called “Casa Sonia” where she reaffirmed herself as a specialist in applying painting techniques to different textile supports and all kinds of objects. Sonia described her textiles as mere “color exercises” that informed her true passion, painting.
His textile work continued to flourish until his death in 1979. Delaunay went on to create more than 2,000 canvases, becoming an influential woman at a time when women had hardly any voice in any field.
In 2011, an exhibition called “Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay” was held in New York, where an exuberant collection of some 250 screen-printed, hand-stitched and embroidered patterns was presented, contextualizing the artist with photographs, drawings and ephemera that illustrate the trajectory of her creative beginnings.
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