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Stage Pictures: Drawing For Performance

Mar 11, 2009 - Aug 24, 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. Stage Pictures presents a selection of designs for dance, theater, and opera from MoMA's drawings collection. The exhibition highlights set and costume studies, as well as more abstract suggestions of light and mood, spanning a century of visual experimentation on the stage鈥攆rom 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-sc猫ne, imagining bodies in space and motion, and manipulating illumination and shadow. Featured artists include Fernand L茅ger, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, and Jim Dine.
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. Stage Pictures presents a selection of designs for dance, theater, and opera from MoMA's drawings collection. The exhibition highlights set and costume studies, as well as more abstract suggestions of light and mood, spanning a century of visual experimentation on the stage鈥攆rom 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-sc猫ne, imagining bodies in space and motion, and manipulating illumination and shadow. Featured artists include Fernand L茅ger, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, and Jim Dine.

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