Hockney Paints the Stage
Somehow or other I find I completely omitted to post this on Stage Lighting with particular reference to Hockney, so here it is now...Hockney, like many other artists, saw the potential for creating art with light for the stage. Light creates mood, changes pace in a scene, directs the audience's attention and allows one stage set to serve many purposes.
The use here of blue lighting on a stage set that is rather crudely drawn and painted gives an 'unreal' look. The actors are wearing masks - these are echoed in the use of larger symbolic masks held above the actors' heads, all of which creates a 'surreal' situation. We are being asked to follow along with an elaborate fantasy or game, rather than immerse ourselves in a real life drama.
Mixing light on stage is a perfected art - various handbooks and manuals have been written to help designers and technicians achieve the colour for the mood but there is great potential for using art to send subliminal messages by creating the right environment, as Hockney showed.
posted by Lynda Cornwell @ 10:48 am
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