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Post by Jan on Oct 30, 2023 18:59:15 GMT
It's quite rare for theatre to be a subject for paintings or drawings but there are a few notable examples.
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Post by Jan on Oct 30, 2023 19:00:57 GMT
Walter Sickert. "Noctes Ambrosianae" (1906) The scene shows the gallery of the Middlesex Music Hall in Drury Lane, London, familiarly known as the Mogul Tavern or the Old Mo’  |
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Post by Jan on Oct 30, 2023 19:12:48 GMT
Mary Cassatt "In The Loge (or At The Opera)" (1878)  |
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Post by Jan on Oct 30, 2023 19:19:06 GMT
Edward Hopper "The Sheridan Theatre" (1937)  |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 30, 2023 19:46:15 GMT
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 30, 2023 19:51:17 GMT
Antonina Rzhevskaya, Music, 1903  |
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Post by Jan on Oct 30, 2023 20:25:12 GMT
Lawrence Alma-Tadema "Entrance to a Roman Theatre" (1866)  |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 30, 2023 20:33:10 GMT
Im a huge Hockney fan and so his theatre posters and set designs are a real gem to me. Im not sure if i could pick a favorite though
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Post by Jan on Oct 30, 2023 20:38:46 GMT
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Post by Jan on Oct 30, 2023 20:48:40 GMT
Lord Snowdon - Olivier as Archie Rice in The Entertainer (1957)  |
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Post by crowblack on Oct 30, 2023 21:00:34 GMT
There's a fascinating late 1960s documentary 'The London Nobody Knows' that turns up on Talking Pictures TV from time to time. Our guide is James Mason, and one of the first locations visited is the derelict music hall often featured in Sickert's paintings.
Theatre reviews in Punch and the like used to be accompanied by illustrations/caricatures by Ronald Searle and other top cartoonists of the day. They're an aspect of Searle's work that isn't as familiar as, say, St Trinians or Molesworth, but I think they're brilliant. There are a lot of them online now.
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Post by Jan on Nov 3, 2023 9:08:02 GMT
Degas - "The Orchestra at the Opera" (1870)  |
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Post by Jan on Nov 3, 2023 9:19:48 GMT
Ralph Steadman - The porter in Macbeth - For the RSC, 1982  |
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Post by crowblack on Nov 3, 2023 14:43:57 GMT
I don't seem to be able to post pictures on here, but Ralph Steadman's poster for the RSC's mid-80s Mother Courage is stunning -
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Post by Jan on Nov 3, 2023 15:29:33 GMT
I don't seem to be able to post pictures on here, but Ralph Steadman's poster for the RSC's mid-80s Mother Courage is stunning - He did a few for them. I also remember one for Henry VIII with Richard Griffiths. To post pictures here you first have to upload them to a site like this postimages.org/Then copy the link to the jpg from that site Then use the Insert Image button here and past in the link |
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Post by Jan on Nov 3, 2023 15:37:28 GMT
Salvador Dali - Portrait of Laurence Olivier in the role of Richard III (1955)  |
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Post by Jan on Nov 5, 2023 13:38:45 GMT
William Hogarth - David Garrick as Richard III (1745)  |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 19, 2023 13:06:20 GMT
I discovered this gem yesterday in the national portrait gallery  |
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