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Abstract State Of Mind

Featuring drawings from MoMA’s collection, Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance investigates the work that results when artists design for theater, dance, and opera. The exhibition highlights set and costume studies, as well as more abstract suggestions of light and mood, from the total theaters of the Ballets Russes and the Bauhaus, to Lincoln Kirstein’s formation of the New York City Ballet, to Pop performances and contemporary epic opera.  The works, spanning a century of visual experimentation on the stage, demonstrate how artists have used drawing strategies to interpret texts, create dramatic mises-en-scène, imagine bodies in space and motion, and manipulate illumination and shadow. Works on paper by Fernand Léger, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, Jim Dine and others reveal the generative role of performance for visual art. Organized by Jodi Hauptman, Curator, Department of Drawings.