‘Delaunay and her husband, Robert, both central to the emergence of painterly abstraction at this moment, saw the dress as an example of their art of “simultanism”: the use of colour contrast, which creates specific effects in the eye of the viewer and captures the dynamism of modernity.
‘For the curators of Sonia Delaunay: Living art, the dress is emblematic because simultanism was also an avant-garde method that ignored the boundaries between fine and decorative arts, and between art and everyday life. They present it as a brand, too, and Delaunay not only as a tireless innovator in fashion, textiles, costume and interior design, but also as an astute promoter of her work.’
May 23, 2024 at 07:52PM