Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert were at the forefront of style and artistic innovation. It was popular at the time, and continues to be to this day, to create art that does not depict the true nature of reality. As the trends of art were in full swing towards cubism, which tended to utilize a more muted color palette, the Delaunay’s wanted to bring back color in their works while still depicting geometric forms. The new movement used to describe the works of the Delaunay’s was called Orphism. In giving it this name, it was a statement that their work could tame wild beasts. While the Orphic work was based on almost complete abstraction and the broad use of color, Sonia held on to the cubist idea of faintly depicting recognizable forms.
