LET'S MEET SONIA DELAUNAY SONIA DELAUNAY Sonia Ilinitchna Stern was born in 1885 in the Ukraine and moved to Russia when she was young. She studied art in Germany and moved to Paris in 1905. In 1910 she married fellow artist Robert Delaunay. Sonia and Robert developed two styles of art called Orphism and Simultanism. In addition to paintings, she also created textile, furniture and fashion designs. She opened several shops in Spain and France where she sold her designs. They were also sold in department stores in England and the U.S. She was the first living female to have a retrospective exhibit of her art at the Louvre in Paris in 1964. ORPHISM The term Orphism was coined in 1912/13 by the poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire. It was named after Orpheus, the poet and musician in Greek mythology. It is a type of cubism that uses color to bring light, movement and a musical quality to the artwork. SIMULTANISM Simultanism is a strand of Orphism developed by Robert and Sonia Delaunay in the early 1900s. The word Simultanism comes from the idea of "simultaneous contrast of colors" in which colors look different depending on the colors around them. The Delaunay's goal was to create rhythm, motion and depth by placing overlapping patches of complimentary or contrasting colors next to each other. SUPPLIES Paper Pencil Ruler Found objects in geometric shapes Coloring Supplies (crayons, markers, pens or pastels) INSTRUCTIONS Trace found objects onto paper with your pencil. Use geometric shapes. We encourage shapes to overlap one another. Divide each shape into smaller geometric shapes with your pencil. Color in the shapes with bold contrasting or complimentary colors. Fill in background with contrasting colors or leave white. .