From: MoMa, The Museum of Modern Art
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"We are...only at the beginning
of color research (full of mysteries
still to be discovered)...."
Sonia Delaunay-Terk (13 November 1885 - 5 December 1979)
Red and green, blue and orange, yellow and violet: these color combinations were vital to the artistic practice and theory of Sonia Delaunay-Terk, whose vast body of work-paintings and drawings, prints and illustrations, textiles and furnishings, clothing and accessories-enthralled its earliest viewers, users, and wearers.
While living in Paris in the 1910s, Delaunay-Terk and her husband, Robert Delaunay, began to explore the visual properties of contrasting colors-colors opposite one another on the color wheel.
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