Stage Design
舞台美術
Dictionary entry
- Ballets Russes 1909–1929 / Style
Diaghilev's company made artists the stars: Bakst's saturated color and orientalism, Picasso's and Goncharova's avant-garde flowed from the stage into fashion and design.
- Bauhaus Stage 1921–1929 / Style
Schlemmer's stage workshop translated the body into geometry. The spheres and cones of the Triadic Ballet costumes made the human dance as a form in space — the origin point of performance art.
- Constructivist Stage 1922–1930s / Style
Revolutionary Russia's style that discarded painted backdrops for a bare working machine on stage. The turning structure Popova built for The Magnanimous Cuckold remade stage design as working construction.
- New Stagecraft 1890s–1930s / Style
The stage reform that dropped painted realism for light, levels and simple volumes shaping space for music and the body. Appia's living light and Craig's moving screens created the very profession of lighting design.
- Commedia dell'Arte 16th–18th century / Style
Italy's improvised comedy that names its characters at a glance through masks and fixed costumes. Harlequin's lozenges, Pulcinella's white — a system of visual signs endlessly quoted by art, fashion and graphics.
- Kumadori 1673– / Style
Kabuki makeup that exaggerates muscle and vein in red and indigo lines, diagramming a role's character on the face. With Sharaku's actor prints, the origin of the strong graphic face in Japanese design.