Costumes and Set Design
The sets were created by the Danish painter, Per Kirkeby, who “replaced opulence with a mood of impending disaster” (Cahill). In this version of Swan Lake, the sets suggest more of a painful feeling, with thorn bushes and cobwebs rather than a magical lake or a palace. Also, instead of using colors like white and silver and more serene colors, Kirkeby used more colors like blue-grays and brown and very odd color mixtures like orange and emerald and later on royal blue and scarlet. The costumes were quite bizarre as well: “courtiers dressed as seventeenth-century Velasquez figures are contrasted in orthodox outfits, of tights, leotards, and ballet skirts” (Barnes).
Read more about this topic: Swan Lake (Martins)
Famous quotes containing the words costumes, set and/or design:
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance. There is as much secrecy about the cooking as if he had a design to poison you.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)