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 … she was a great believer in collaborating.
BLAISE CENDRARS QUOTATION:
“Mrs. Delaunay has made such a beautiful book of colours that my poem is more soaked in light than my life.”
KATE DAVIES: Delaunay, working in so many different media, in …fine art and …decorative art, …to 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: “For me, the abstract and the sensual should come together. Breaking away from the descriptive line did not mean becoming sterile.”
KATE DAVIES: For Delaunay, art isn’t somewhere over there and life somewhere over here, the two are both the same thing, they’re there to be experienced simultaneously.
SONIA DELAUNAY: Only the relation of one colour with the other.
