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Sonia Delaunay, Tate Modern ★★★★★

15 Apr 15 – 09 Aug 15, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Top shows in London 2015: abstraction and colour come to life in the Tate Modern, Sonia Delaunay exhibition

By CW Contributor on 19/12/2014

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Sonia Delaunay, Prismes electriques 1914 © Pracusa 2013057 © CNAP
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Culture Whisper says: ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭒
Below is our preview, which explains the background of the show. Click here to read our Sonia Delaunay Tate Modern review.

One of the best exhibitions of 2015 is the Tate Modern's retrospective of artist Sonia Delaunay who, together with her husband Robert Delaunay, established the Orphist movement which championed pure and abstract colour. Combining a technical understanding of colour theory and form with unrelenting ambition, Delaunay united painting, design and fashion. In this exhibition hosted by Tate Modern, London and Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, we'll discover Delaunay in her first UK retrospective and assess the extent of her rich interdisciplinary legacy.
Who was Sonia Delaunay?
Born Sonia Terk in Odessa, in the Ukraine, Delaunay travelled to Paris to pursue her art education and studied at the celebrated Académie de la Palette under Jacques Émile-Blanche (her contemporaries included French painters Amédée Ozenfant and André Dunoyer de Segonzac, and even Duncan Grant). It was here that Delaunay met her second husband Robert and embarked on a life-long artistic collaboration.
Sonia & Robert Delaunay
Together, the couple developed their theory of Simultaeism, a kind of flat, abstracted art of rhyming discs and lozenges of simultaneous and contrasting colours. We can expect a lot of this style of painting at the Tate Modern exhibition, including the riotous clouds of colour in Bal Bullier (1913) and the swirling coloured lights of the modern city in Electric Prisms (1914).
Why is the Sonia Delaunay art style special?
Delaunay was revelatory in the way she brought modern life out from the elitist confines of the canvas and placed it into the design world of textiles, tapestries and mosaics. She showed her first ‘simultaneous dress’ in 1913 and opened a Madrid boutique in 1918, from where her avant-garde creations really took off and attracted the attention of the Ballets Russes and Liberty of London.
Be prepared for a detailed look at the diverse iconography of the stitched, glued and painted creations of Sonia Delaunay this summer.



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What Sonia Delaunay, Tate Modern
Where Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG | MAP
Nearest tube Southwark (underground)
When 15 Apr 15 – 09 Aug 15, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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    You'll also find Sonia Delaunay's little blanket stitched with a patchwork of abstract colours for her son, Charles, in 1911 at Tate Modern. This quirky piece reveals Delaunay's interest in Russian folk-craft and Parisian avant-garde painting.

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    Pay a visit to the Tate Turbine Hall on Saturday 25th July and enjoy a fantastic day of performance, installations and activities. The Turbine Hall will transform itself into an alternative city for the day with a great programme of short films being screened, workshops from beatboxing and poetry to crafting, a pop-up record shop where you can create your own vinyl designs and even a red London bus being built on site. Free entry, click here for the full programme.

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