Tobin Theatre Arts Exhibition on show at the McNay Art Museum

artwork: Grit Kallin-Fischer, Costume design for Spinning Tops in Petrouchka, 1927. Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on paper. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of The Tobin Endowment.


SAN ANTONIO, TX.- In Baroque to Bauhaus (on view through June 10th) scene and costume designs, gilded ornaments stand out against steel girders and lace mantillas against oilskin raincoats, all of which embrace extremes of artistic expression and human emotion. For his late baroque operas Marriage of Figaro (1786) and Così fan tutte (1790), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed music as playfully complex as their amorous intrigues and ornate settings. By contrast, at the interdisciplinary Bauhaus workshops in Germany (1919-1933), Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and other artist-designers explored the mechanical movements of human form in space and time. This exhibition was organized by the McNay Art Museum and is a program of the Tobin Theatre Arts Fund. On exhibition through 10th of June.

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