CoRkErS HoMaGe To SoNiA DeLaUnAy - RhApSoDy iN bLuE

CoRkErS HoMaGe To DeLaUnAy -RhApSoDy iN bLuE ArTkNiT 

The RhApSoDy iN bLuE CoRkErS HoMaGe To SoNiA DeLaUnAy ArTkNiT evokes for me the early years of the JAZZ AGE with its knitted horizontal bars of blue tones, neutral spaces and red high notes.
Gerschwin's  1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue was scored for a solo piano and Jazz band. It mixed classical music with Jazz effects.  I can easily imagine Josephine Baker dancing in my >RhApSoDy iN bLuE< ArTkNiT to any number of Gherschwin's Jazz rhaps in between performances at the Theatre des Champs Elysees. Josephine an American born French dancer came to success at the same time as the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris where the term ARTDECO became linguistic currency.
 Gerschwin's Rhapsody in Blue almost didn't happen as he thought he would not have enough time to make revisions before the performance date. However on hearing that Vincent Lopez was conniving to steal his idea for an experimental Jazz Concert he became determined to finish it. Thank goodness also for Vincent Lopez who unwittingly gave our hero Gerschwin the fire he needed to complete his masterpiece for all to admire, enjoy and be inspired.

SoNiA DeLaUnAy

CoRkErS ArTkNiT detail

CoRkErS HoMaGe to SoNiA Delaunay -RhApSoDy iN bLuE

ThE CoRkErS HoMaGe To SoNiA DeLaUnAy ReTrOsPeCtIvE

Corkers Homage to Sonia Delaunay Artknit

  Et voila mes amis ! Here are my Homage to Sonia Delaunay Artknits on Madame Bovary's Morning Papers . Enjoy the mini flash back to Les ANnEeS FoLLeS!
I originally designed them during the Sonia Delaunay exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York in 2012. The exhibition has since toured to Paris and London and I am still working on a knitted  interpretation of yet another of her wonderful designs.

Corkers Homage to Sonia Delaunay Artknit

Corkers Homage to Sonia Delaunay Artknit





Sonia Delaunay

CoRkErS >Homage to Sonia Delaunay< OpErA ArTkNiT

CoRkErS HoMaGe To SoNiA DeLaUnAy  OpErA ArTkNiT

At our Art House studios in Verteuil during Spring 2012 we ran an Art and Textiles workshop for which I spent a very enjoyable time researching the textile paintings of Sonia Delaunay. To develop my research  further I simultaneously embarked on a  >Homage to SoNia DeLaUnAy<  Art knit project. This venture is still ongoing in 2016 and continues to bring me immense pleasure and deep satisfaction. The London exhibition catalogue has provided some extra fuel for new ideas.

Sonia Delaunay

 

Sonia Delaunay

In the Belle Epoch and during the Roaring Twenties Opera was the Venue one haunted to admire all things operatic .   

Sal in my Atelier wearing one of my Homage to SoNiA Delaunay OpErA ArTkNiTs 

CoRkErS OpErA ArTkNiT

CoRkErS HoMaGe To SoNiA DeLaUnAy ~ ThE ArT DeCo ArTkNiT

CoRKeRs HoMaGe To SoNiA DeLaUnAy ArT DeCo ArTkNiT

 My >Homage to Sonia Delaunay< project continues over here on Madame Bovary's Morning Papers. I have delved deeper into the Delaunay archives and treasures of that revolutionary era in Art and Textiles. I love swimming in the collective sea where Russian and European Cubism merge and the Jack of Diamonds, Wienner Werkstatte, Bauhaus, Cabaret Voltaire and Omega Workshops, Bloomsbury and Charleston collide.
 This Corkers Artknit is derived from another geometric design by Sonia Delaunay in greens. The term ART DECO was coined during the Exposition Internationale des Arts  Decoratifs et Industriels in Paris between April and October 1925 where Sonia Delaunay had a pavilion called BOUTIQUE SIMULTANE. It was the same year that Josephine Baker was dancing one arrondissement away at the Theatre des Champs Elysees.

Sonia Delaunay