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| Sonia Delaunay Oil on canvas 1938 |
Orphism was a type of art which gave priority to the abstraction of art and the use of bright colours. Named by Guillaume Apollinaire, he named the style Orphism after the Greek poet and artist, Orpheus.
Orphism was inspired by that of cubism - the use of geometry, etc. - but also believed that colour was a powerful element to include in art. So, unlike cubists, who removed most colour from their art, Orphism includes bright colours and geometric fragmentation.
Sonia Delaunay continued making art until she was older, working from the time she moved to Paris in the very early 20th century (estimated 1905) to just before her death in Paris at the age of 94 in 1979. She was not only known for her brilliant paintings but her fabric and costume-making, textile design, and stage set design.
Friday March 22nd
Spent half the lesson catching up on this blog post due to me being absent yesterday (wow what a surprise.) However, I enjoyed getting to work a bit on these thumbnail sketches.
Well done Jaime for catching up. Great mahi.
ReplyDeleteYou have worked on some decent research quickly here and that is appreciated. I see DNA in one of your thumbnail sketches. You can use it as an inspirational shape, but I want you to try and be abstract and simplified with this. It is harder than it sounds, strangely enough. We are socially conditioned to want to make art look realistic.
Next week we are lino cutting, you should have enough with this to just move on.