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WENDY SALMOND (Otago, New Zealand) Mikhail Vrubel' and Stage Design: The 1900 Production of Tsar Saltan In his reminiscences of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel' (1856-1910), Ser- gei Sudeikin made an impressive claim: "All the principles of Cubism, Con- structivism and Surrealism were founded by Vrubel'. And despite our respect for Picasso, the real beginning of modern painting was Vrubel'."1 With equal justification, Vrubel's association with the Moscow Private Opera Company of Savva Mamontov, between 1896 and 1901, may also be regarded as the real beginning of modern stage design in Russia-as a movement away from the two-dimensional and static plane of the traditional decorative backdrop, toward the three-dimensional and dynamic space of the stage itself. Although Vrubel's reputation as a stage designer rests largely on his decorative talent and the psychological, even expressionistic power of his color harmonies,2 he was at least as much a constructor and builder of forms in space as a decora- tor of their surfaces. In this he was unique among his contemporaries Kon- stantin Korovin (1861-1939), Aleksandr Golovin (1863-1930) and Valentin Serov (1865-1911). The purpose of this essay is not simply to examine one key production in which Vrubel' was involved,3 but rather to
Russian History – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1981
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