Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. SundayArts Choice segment. With Jodi Hauptman, curator in the department of drawings. Audio and video, 3min 20sec, 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 - 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.
In this SundayArts Choice segment, Jodi Hauptman, curator in the department of drawings, presents the highlights from this exhibit."
The exhibition Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance will run at the MoMA until Sept 7th (2009).
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