As before long as I stepped within the Museum of Modern day Art’s chronological retrospective “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Dwelling Abstraction,” I felt delighted, like a kid once more. I was captivated by expressive movement, pure geometrical types and ebullient color. Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943)—one of the most creative, multifaceted and less than-sung artists of the 1st 50 percent of the 20th century—convinced me that hers is the way summary artwork was intended to be: playful, unburdened by principle, driven by sensation deceptively childlike and folksy yet rigorously composed, exquisite and complex—as disarming for its modest sophistication as for its feeling of carnivalesque joy. ‘Vertical-Horizontal Composition,’ (1916) Photo: Alex Delfanne Sophie Taeuber was born…