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The theatrical set designed by mobile artist Alexander Calder for a touring performance of Erik Satie’s symphonic drama Socrate in 1936. The decor was recreated by the artist in 1976 for a performance in New York. It is a mobile set considered by Virgil Thomson as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century theatre design. It consisted of three elements a red sun/disc; interlocking steel hoops; and a vertical rectangle, black on one side and white on the other against a blue backdrop.〔('Short documentary' )〕 == Background == “A sense of drama is evident in much of Calder’s work, and his predilection for strong color, movement and large scale led naturally to the theater,” wrote Jean Lipman in The Whitney Museum of American Art catalogue Calder’s Universe .〔John Lipman Calder's Universe page 171〕 One of Calder’s first works for the stage was the mobile set made in February, 1936 for a production of Erik Satie’s ''Socrate'', sponsored by a group with the amusing name the Friends and Enemies of Modern Music. Despite the originality of the piece, the set was burned after the Colorado Springs performance of "Socrate" in 1936. Calder discussed the set in The Painter's Object saying : ''I did a setting for Satie’s Socrate in Hartford, U.S.A., which I will describe, as it serves as an indication of a good deal of my subsequent work.''〔(Mobiles by Alexander Calder in The Painter’s Object edited by Myfanwy Evans )〕 The set creation happened at a time when he was beginning to move from small, studio sculpture to large outdoor work, and Socrate gave Calder an opportunity to transpose his moving sculpture to monumental scale. He took the great empty space of the stage and filled it not only with forms but with the movement of those forms through space and time-an exercise more akin to dance than to sculpture. Calder’s contribution to sculpture was to conceive of it as an art of movement. A mobile is a little performance, an abstract dance choreographed by the sculptor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calder's set for Socrate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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