Sentences with phrase «russes costumes»
«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.
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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.
While famous for his sets and costumes for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Bakst was also an inspired textile designer and fashion - forward thinker.
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.
• FRANCE Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) Russian set / costume designer for Sergei Diaghilev and 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.
Alexander Benois (1870 - 1960) Theatrical costume designer and set painter for the Ballets Russes.
The energy of the Ballets Russes» performances will be brought to life through giant backcloths, costumes, art, film and sound.
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.
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.
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.