Art Deco vs Bakst Stage Design
アール・デコ / バクストの舞台美術
Art Deco comes from Historical Styles and Bakst Stage Design from Stage Design. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Art Deco
Stages urban luxury with repeating geometry and a metallic sheen.
Bakst Stage Design
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Sets and costumes rebuilt as a painter's single picture. Jewel-deep colors laid over one another, with swirling curves and orientalist pattern drawing the dancing body itself into the design.
| Art Deco | Bakst Stage Design | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1920s–1930s | 1909-1914 |
| Family | Historical Styles | Stage Design |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Symmetry / Radiating lines / Stepped motifs / Gold and black | Combinations of jewel deep color / Pattern laid over pattern in the costumes / Swirling Art Nouveau curves / Orientalist headdresses and loose trousers |
| Best used for | Giving an event a sense of occasion · Producing instant classic luxury | Setting design and costume first, as the leading element of a production · Making one performance an event remembered through its color |
| Type | Tall, narrow geometric display type | Programme and curtain from the same hand, lettering matched to the sets |
| Composition | Centered, symmetrical composition | Treat the backdrop as flat pattern and let costume movement supply depth |
| Material | Black, gold, ivory; repeated hairlines | Saturated dyed fabric, gold and silver, oriental motifs at large scale |
| Caution | Too much ornament turns theme-park. Let white space carry the dignity. | Adding colors and patterns without deciding the contrast between set and costume dissolves the dancer into the backdrop and the movement disappears. |