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Sonia Delaunay audio guide trailer

 
 
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INTRO: From the very beginning, Sonia was a dedicated modernist. JULIET BINGHAM: She was really experimental in her approach across a wide range of media. She took risks in presenting herself as a kind of living work of art; she promoted bringing art into the everyday; and 鈥 she was a great believer in collaborating. BLAISE CENDRARS QUOTATION: 鈥淢rs. Delaunay has made such a beautiful book of colours that my poem is more soaked in light than my life.鈥 KATE DAVIES: Delaunay, working in so many different media, in 鈥ine art and 鈥ecorative art, 鈥o me the way that she crossed those disciplinary boundaries without even thinking about it is tremendously inspiring. JULIET BINGHAM: And so in a way she kind of made herself into a living sculpture. NARRATOR: Until then, nothing like this had ever been devised. It still looks modern today. JULIETTE RIZZI: We can see that Sonia has engaged with abstraction fully... SONIA DELAUNAY QUOTATION: 鈥淔or me, the abstract and the sensual should come together. Breaking away from the descriptive line did not mean becoming sterile.鈥 KATE DAVIES: For Delaunay, art isn鈥檛 somewhere over there and life somewhere over here, the two are both the same thing, they鈥檙e there to be experienced simultaneously. SONIA DELAUNAY: Only the relation of one colour with the other.

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