Now, in an exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, the early impact of Cubism on France's decorative ... are colorful dress-design sketches by Sonia Delaunay, whose clients included Hollywood ...

Sonia Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French artist and designer ... Having left Uhde for Delaunay, the new couple pioneered a fusion of Cubism and Neo-Impressionism, later deemed Orphism by the poet ...

is like a mini-Delaunay retrospective. It was the Delaunays’ good friend, the French poet-critic Guillaume Apollinaire, who, in 1912, coined the term “Orphism” or “Orphic Cubism” (he ...

Orphism (1912–1914) Emerging as an offshoot of Cubism, Orphism was spearheaded by Robert and Sonia Delaunay. This movement emphasised the use of vibrant colours and abstract forms to evoke ...