Stage Pictures
Drawing for Performance
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.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
in
New York,
United States.
From
Wednesday 11 March 2009 to Monday 24 August 2009
Published by MOMA on Tuesday 07 April 2009.
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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.
Organized by Jodi Hauptman, Curator, Department of Drawings.
The Paul J. Sachs Drawings Galleries, third floor
