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THE EY EXHIBITION: SONIA DELAUNAY │ Tate Modern, London → 9 August 2015

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Electric Prisms 1913 Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Electric Prisms 1913 Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

“Soňa Ḍlwne (1885–1979) wz a ci figr in ɖ Ṗrizı̣n avãgād n bcem ɖ Yṛpiyn dýen v abstract āt.

Ʈrt ɖ frst hāf v ɖ twentiiʈ senčri, š seḷbretd ɖ modn wrld v muvmnt, tecnoḷji n ŕbn lîf, xplorñ ny îdiyz abt culrʈiyri tgɖr wɖ hr huzbnd Robt Ḍlwne.

Ɖs wl b ɖ frst YC retṛspctv t ases ɖ bredʈ v hr vîbṛnt ātistc practis acrs a wîd renj v mīdia. It wl fīčr ɖ grândbrecñ pêntñz, txtîlz n cloɖz š md acrs a sixti-yir c̣rir, az wel az ɖ rzults v hr iṇvtv c̣laḅrešnz wɖ powts, coriogṛfrz n manyfacčrrz, fṛm Diagilev t Liḅti.

Propeller (Air Pavilion), 1937, at Tate Modern. Photograph: Tim Ireland/AP
Propeller (Air Pavilion), 1937, at Tate Modern. Photograph: Tim Ireland/AP

A nocât šo. (Êdrı̣n Srl, Ɖ Gādı̣n)

Ɖs šo mcs a pârfl āğmnt fr Ḍlwne az a tru radicl: ahd v hr tîm, ṣprīmli reḷvnt t ârs. (Ben Lūc, Īvnñ Standd)

Ḍlwne z wn v ɖ crūšl refṛnspýnts in modn āt n dzîn. VÔG”

Yellow Nude 1908 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes
Bag from beach set, 1922-3
Coat for Gloria Swanson, 1923-24. Photograph: Private Collection
Simultaneous Dresses (The three women), 1925. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Day coat, 1925
Court shoes, 1925. Photograph: Les Arts Décoratifs, Musée de la Mode et du Textile, Paris
Rhythm Colour no. 1076, 1939
Syncopated rhythm, so-called The Black Snake 1967 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

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ABSTRACTION AND THE ART OF JOHN GOLDING │ Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich → 27 September 2015

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“Abstract āt wz a grt invnšn v ɖ twentiiʈ senčri. Abstraẋn n ɖ Āt v Jon Goldñ z an xibišn in tu pāts; frst, it srvez ɖ orijinz n fl dveḷpmnt v abstract āt at ɖ bginñ v ɖ senčri, n ɖen dsplez a ṣlẋn v wrcs v ɖ ātist Jon Goldñ folowñ ɖ gift v ɖ ātist’s wrcs t ɖ Sênzbri Sentr in 2014.

Šôcesñ ɖ dvrṣti n vrayti v môdz v abstraẋn, ɖ xibišn xplorz ci eḷmnts v načṛl, jı̣mtric n liricl abstraẋn alñsd asošietd muvmnts includñ Kbizm, Vwtisizm, Ōfizm, Pyrizm, D’Stil, Sūpreṃtizm, Ɖ Bâhâs, Miniṃlizm n Cnspčlizm.

Az pêntr, tīčr n scolr, Jon Goldñ held a lîf-loñ fasinešn wɖ ɖ orijinz n ivlušn v abstraẋn. Hiz seminl txt Kbizm: A Histri n an Anaḷsis 1907-1914 wz publišt in 1959. Goldñ’z prsnl jrni az a pêntr pṛgrest ʈru fiğrešn intu abstraẋn, culminetñ in imotvli čājd n pridominntli lj-scêl canvsz imbyd wɖ culr, eṇji n a rnyd sens v pêntrli frīdm.

Hiz wrcs r meditešnz on hymn xpirı̣ns rletñ t ɖ bodi, landscep, lît n ɖ eḷmnts. Inṭlecčli n ātistcli, Jon Goldñ hz md a significnt n influenšl contribyšn t âr undrstandñ v ɖ histri v abstract āt in ɖ twentiiʈ senčri.”

Sonia Delaunay. Project for a cover for Vogue. France. 1916. Gouache and pencil on paper. h. 34.5 x w. 23.3 cm.
Sonia Delaunay. Project for a cover for Vogue. France. 1916. Gouache and pencil on paper. h. 34.5 x w. 23.3 cm.

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