Cross-pollination pervades the art field. Painters who unwind with a guitar in hand, dancers who sketch, musicians who turn their songs into dance moves – it’s common for artists of all kinds to be magnetically drawn to multiple art forms and their practitioners. In Marc Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage, showing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, audiences have the opportunity to explore Chagall’s relationships with music and dance, and view how these art forms shaped his work as one of the world’s early modernists.
Chagall worked across numerous artistic formats, pivoting from paint to stained glass and stage sets; the work in Fantasies for the Stage shows several facets of his range. Costume sketches for performances of The Magic Flute and The Firebird divulge Chagall’s flamboyant imagination and are shown alongside the actual costumes. Viewers have a rare opportunity to see for themselves what edits were made in the translation from sketch to dress form.
This juicy, colorful body of work is on display now through January 7, 2018, and whether you are more personally drawn to fashion, visual art, or music, Fantasies for the Stage presents something to quench your thirst.
