Sentences with phrase «russes as»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.