Sonia Delaunay Exhibit: Color Moves

I know the show is over- but for those of us who missed it, there still is some great information and imagery to be had online. Here's the scoop.

An exhibit titled Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delauney was held at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum from March-June 2011. Though Russian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was primarily known as an abstract painter, she also applied her talents to many areas of artistic expression, including textiles and fashion. The exhibition focused on fashion designs she created in the 1920's from her Paris workshop known as Simultané as well as textiles she designed for the Metz & Co. department store in the 1930's. The following is a selection of images from Cooper-Hewitt's Delaunay exhibition page.

Here is a lengthy, but interesting and informative video by Cooper-Hewitt about Sonia and the exhibit.

Metz & Co store front, Amsterdam, c. 1949, designed by Gerrit Rietveld.

 Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979)

All images via Cooper-Hewitt, copyright L&M Services B.V. The Hague.