March 2009
Visual artists have long been interested in the stage as an arena for experimentation and their interdisciplinary collaborations have immeasurably enriched the history of modern art.
Now in “Stage Pictures,” a selection of designs for dance, theatre, and opera from MoMA’s drawings collection are presented as an exhibition that highlights set and costume studies, as well as more abstract suggests of light and mood, all spanning a century of visual experimentation on the stage–from the total theaters of the Ballets Russes and the Bauhaus, to Lincoln Kirstein's formation of an American ballet company, to Pop performances and contemporary epic opera.
These works demonstrate how artists have used drawing strategies to, as one critic put it, "anticipate an event": interpreting texts to create dramatic mises-en-scène, imagining bodies in space and motion, and manipulating illumination and shadow.
Featured artists include Fernand Léger, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, and Jim Dine.
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