Sophie Taeuber Arp, 1889 - 1943, was a brilliant Swiss artist who started her career in textiles, broadened to many other media. Please read about her in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Taeuber-Arp
Wassily Kandinsky said about her: "Sophie Taeuber-Arp expressed herself by means of the 'colored relief,' especially in the last years of her life, using almost exclusively the simplest forms, geometric forms. The forms, by their sobriety, their silence, their way of being sufficient unto themselves, invite the hand, if it is skillful, to use the language that is suitable to it and which is often only a whisper; but often too the whisper is more expressive, more convincing, more persuasive, than the 'loud voice' that here and there lets itself burst out."
Sophie herself said: “Only when we go into ourselves and attempt to be entirely true to ourselves will we succeed in making things of value....”
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