Flamenco Singers 1916

Sonia Delaunay’s *Flamenco Singers* feels like a carnival of colour exploding on canvas. The whole scene vibrates with concentric circles of reds, yellows, greens, and blues – you can almost hear the music! Imagine Delaunay, brush in hand, building up these layers, one ring at a time. Each stroke must have been a decision, a little pulse of energy. You can see how the forms of the singers emerge gradually, blending into the swirling background. I love the way she uses colour to suggest rhythm and movement. It reminds me of Kandinsky and other early abstract painters who wanted to translate music into visual form. It’s like she’s saying that painting, like music, can be a universal language that speaks directly to our emotions. Artists like Delaunay, who was working at the beginning of abstraction, were really onto something – this idea that a painting can be an experience, not just a representation.