Offroute's weekly Artist Inspiration is Sonia Delaunay! Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French artist and designer known for creating colorful geometric patterns in her work. Born Sarah Élievna Stern on November 14, 1885 in Odessa, Ukraine to a poor Jewish family, she was sent to live with her wealthy uncle Henri Terk at the age of five. She adopted the name Sonia Terk. She went on to study drawing in Germany at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, before moving to Paris in 1906. It was in Paris that she met and later married the art dealer Wilhelm Uhde, who served as a means to Delaunay becoming a French citizen. It was Uhde that introduced her to her future husband Robert Delaunay. Having left Uhde for Delaunay, the new couple created a fusion of Cubism and Neo-Impressionism, later deemed Orphism by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. She used this new aesthetic approach to make paintings, textiles, and designs over the course of her career. “For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called ‘decorative’ work,” she said. “I never considered the ‘minor arts’ to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.” In 1964, Delaunay became the first living female artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre Museum. She died on December 5, 1979 in Paris, France at the age of 94. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, among others. #offrouteart #artinspiration #arthisotry #womenpainters #womeninart #soniadelaunay #supportartists #supportlocalartists #supportyoungartists #supportsmallbusinesses #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/CNFsmZ-Bcpy/?igshid=13ynjperkzp9j
