Sentences with phrase «ballets russes»

Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962) Famous for her Neo-Primitivist painting, Rayonism, designs for Ballets Russes.

July 3, 2013 Summer Films at the National Gallery of Art Celebrate Kerry James Marshall, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, American Folklife Festival, Hitchcock, and More

Dine there today and you can feast your eyes on Picasso's curtain for the Ballets Russes production of The Three - Cornered Hat.

Her best - known alternate persona is «Eleanora Antinova,» personifying the discounted black ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Any banner proclaiming PICASSO is bound to draw the masses, but this exhibition delivers its lines sotto voce rather than through the megaphones he gave to the Cubist stage manager in «Parade,» his masterpiece for the Ballets Russes.

Her most famous persona is that of Eleanora Antinova, the tragically overlooked black ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

After being released from military service in 1919, he established himself as a Classicist, designing a number of ballet sets for Sergei Diaghilev and Les Ballets Russes.

As the title suggests, this etching by American artist Elizabeth Peyton is a still life arrangement of a vase of flowers in full bloom and a book connected with the Ballets Russes founder Sergei Diaghilev.

Dressed as the Ballets Russes star Vaslav Nijinsky, he perches atop one foot on a Fabergé egg, evocative of classical depictions of Fortuna, the goddess of luck, balancing on a ball.

Another important poster and set designer was Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924), who came to Paris with the Ballets Russes run by Sergei Diaghilev.

Highlights include the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world - renowned Baroque and Surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; Modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collecton of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; the George A. Gay collection of prints; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art.

She left Russia in 1915, spending the rest of her career in Geneva and Paris, where she contributed stage designs to Sergei Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes.

2014 Fashion masterpieces from the Musee des arts Decoratifs, Paris 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart 2013 Turner from the Tate: the Making of a Master 2012 Fred Williams: infinite horizons 2011 Beneath the winds: Masterpieces of Southeast Asian art 2011 Saatchi in Adelaide 2010 A beautiful line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi 2010 Rupert Bunny: artist in Paris 2010 Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s - 1970s 2009 Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art 2009 The Golden Journey: Japanese Art from Australian Collections 2008 Hans Heysen 2008 Misty Moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915-1950 2008 Ballets Russes in Australia 2007 A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s - 1940s

[NOTE: Curiously, both styles were used in the theatrical sets for Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes, designed by Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) and Alexander Benois (1870 - 1960), that took Paris by storm in 1909.]

Other highlights include costume designs for the Ballets Russes, a 1916 - 19 Nympheas (Water Lilies) by Claude Monet, and a Robert Rauschenberg «Jammer» from 1975.

Created in 1914 for the Ballets Russes, Jeux portrays a circuitous game of tennis between three dancers.

The Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo wired me to come to London to work on a ballet (but at my expense).

Specially created films will be on show throughout including footage of composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall explaining the development of music that accompanied the Ballets Russes.

In addition to discs there are coloured pennants (of cloth), with weights on them, which fly at high speed ---- and various solid objects, bits of hose, springs, etc. -LSB-...] I had this in Paris the spring of 1933 and showed it to Massine ---- along with many other things, and it's what I wanted to do for the Ballets Russes.

Known for his innovative use of photographs, illustrations, and type on the printed page, he became art director for Harper's Bazaar in 1934, and photographed the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo during their American tours from 1935 to 1939.

The energy of the Ballets Russes» performances will be brought to life through giant backcloths, costumes, art, film and sound.

Alexander Benois (1870 - 1960) Theatrical costume designer and set painter for the Ballets Russes.

Smart's work recognizes the East as an influence on avant - garde movements like The Ballets Russes dance company's contemporary thought and politics and how this intersected and manifested in their choreographies, costume and theatre designs.

• FRANCE Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) Russian set / costume designer for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.

He works on a new series of objects and he designs the curtain, sets, costumes and objects for the ballet Jeux d'enfants performed by the Ballets Russes de Monte - Carlo, with music by Georges Bizet, libretto by Boris Kochno and choreography by Léonide Massine.

The impresario Serge Diaghilev was the creator and driving force of the Ballets Russes.

Narrated by Tilda Swinton, this film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909 — 1929: When Art Danced with Music.

Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, narrated by Tilda Swinton (2013, 60 min.)

2 Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909 - 1929: When Art Danced with Music, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

He lived in Paris between 1929 and 1936, where he studied with Francis Picabia and José Maria Sert; worked on set designs for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; and painted in Brittany with Christopher Wood in 1929.

While famous for his sets and costumes for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Bakst was also an inspired textile designer and fashion - forward thinker.

Picasso designed sets for the Ballets Russes; Robert Rauschenberg for Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor and Trisha Brown.

The dance sequences were choreographed by former Ballets Russes principal David Lichine, but apart from the majesties of Cyd Charisse, they're mainly inadequate.

The object of Lea's desire is the title character (played by Rupert Friend), a boy as beautiful as a faun from the Ballets Russes.

With Paris and Nicky Hilton and Bella Thorne in her front row, Diane von Furstenberg capped the night with her joyful show, a Ballets Russes - themed collection that was more than anything an ode to her wrap dress as she celebrates that iconic piece's 40th anniversary.

In 1917 when the carnage was three years old, Picasso was doing set and costume designs for the Ballets Russes as if nothing were happening.

She is a 2012 Artist Foundation of San Antonio grant recipient for her reconstruction of the Ballet Russes's Rite of Spring.

The exhibition, guest - curated by Emily Liebert, begins with perhaps the most discomforting of these personas: Eleanora Antinova, an African American ballerina who Antin claims was once a dancer in Diaghilev's celebrated Ballet Russes, and is now lost

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Based on documentation of performances by for instance the Ballet Russes in the 1920s, the Judson Dance Theatre in the 1960s or contemporary choreographers, Silke Otto - Knapp has also painted formations and tableaus formed by the bodies of the choreographed dancers.

The performing arts were a significant source of inspiration for Chagall throughout his long career: he depicted musicians in many of his paintings, collaborated on set designs for the Ballet Russes in 1911, created murals and theatrical productions for the Moscow State Jewish Theater in the 1920s, and designed costumes and monumental sets for ballet and opera in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

«The new collection has been designed in homage to costumes that the designer's grandmother collected from a sale of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes costumes at Sotheby's in 1969.