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Picasso and the Ballets Russes
Pablo Picasso's involvement and collaborations with the Ballets Russes
Pablo Picasso and the Ballets Russes collaborated on several productions. Pablo Picasso's Cubist sets and costumes were used by Sergei Diaghilev in the Ballets Russes's Parade (, choreography: Léonide Massine), Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat) (, choreography: Massine), Pulcinella (, choreographer: Massine), and Cuadro Flamenco (, choreography: Spanish folk dancers). Picasso also drew a sketch with pen on paper of La Boutique fantasque (The Magic Toyshop), (, choreography: Massine)[2] and designed the drop curtain for Le Train Bleu (, choreography: Bronislava Nijinska), based on his painting Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race), [3]
The idea for the set design of Parade came from the decorations at a small vaudeville theater in Rome as well as the décor of the Teatro dei Piccoli, a marionette theater. The original model was crafted in a cardboard box. Picasso realized immediately that he liked using vivid colors for his sets and costumes because they registered so well with the audience. While the sets, costumes and music by Erik Satie were well received by critics, the ballet in general was panned when it first premi
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II. Working for the Ballet
II. Working for the Ballet
Picasso contributed to ten ballet productions, including six for the Ballets Russes. His involvement was sometimes limited to just a stage curtain, or instructions for making one - this is the case for example for Le Train bleu () and Le Rendez-vous (). However, between and , he was very actively involved in four major productions: Parade (), The Three-Cornered Hat (), Pulcinella () and Mercure (), ballets for which he designed sets, costumes and stage curtains.
These creations coincided with Picasso moving away from the Cubist style. After a decade of systematic research, which took him from the Proto-Cubism of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon () to Synthetic Cubism, he began to explore new directions. He started once again to produce naturalist drawings in Neo-classical and Cubist elements coexisted in Parade. Picasso continued to incorporate little touches of the Cubist style into his different creations, before replacing them with a first form of Surrealism in Mercure. As such, the artist's successive changes were reflected in the world of ballet.
From the s onwards, some of these ballets were recreated by the Paris Opera. After Parade, recreated in on the occasion of a tribute to Erik Satie, The Three