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"Costume Design (Androcles and the Lion)," Florine Stettheimer, c. 1912.

Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a poet, designer, artist, feminist, and intellectual, with a highly individual style of Modern art.

In 1912, she began to create an opera, which she titled "Orphée des Quat'z Arts," inspired by an annual ball held by Paris art students that combined an excuse to party with a chance to show off their works. They were always masquerades built around some annual theme, and were known for scandalous behavior.

Stettheimer designed costumes, sets, and a libretto for the opera, but it was never produced. However, her costume designs were some of her earliest modernist works that prefigured today's mixed-media art.

Here we have Androcles, riding the lion, only the lion is on a wheeled cart, like a huge toy. The rider, though is interesting; the costume bits are made of cloth and cellophane, and the lion's collar is lace. Stettheimer was fascinated by cellophane, then a new material, and used it a few decades later when designing costumes for Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts."

From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

#Art #FlorineStettheimer #Modernism #WomenAritsts #CostumeDesign #MixedMedia

"Costume Design (Androcles and the Lion)," Florine Stettheimer, c. 1912.

Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a poet, designer, artist, feminist, and intellectual, with a highly individual style of Modern art.

In 1912, she began to create an opera, which she titled "Orphée des Quat'z Arts," inspired by an annual ball held by Paris art students that combined an excuse to party with a chance to show off their works. They were always masquerades built around some annual theme, and were known for scandalous behavior.

Stettheimer designed costumes, sets, and a libretto for the opera, but it was never produced. However, her costume designs were some of her earliest modernist works that prefigured today's mixed-media art.

Here we have Androcles, riding the lion, only the lion is on a wheeled cart, like a huge toy. The rider, though is interesting; the costume bits are made of cloth and cellophane, and the lion's collar is lace. Stettheimer was fascinated by cellophane, then a new material, and used it a few decades later when designing costumes for Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts."

From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

#Art #FlorineStettheimer #Modernism #WomenAritsts #CostumeDesign #MixedMedia

"Costume Design (Androcles and the Lion)," Florine Stettheimer, c. 1912.

Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a poet, designer, artist, feminist, and intellectual, with a highly individual style of Modern art.

In 1912, she began to create an opera, which she titled "Orphée des Quat'z Arts," inspired by an annual ball held by Paris art students that combined an excuse to party with a chance to show off their works. They were always masquerades built around some annual theme, and were known for scandalous behavior.

Stettheimer designed costumes, sets, and a libretto for the opera, but it was never produced. However, her costume designs were some of her earliest modernist works that prefigured today's mixed-media art.

Here we have Androcles, riding the lion, only the lion is on a wheeled cart, like a huge toy. The rider, though is interesting; the costume bits are made of cloth and cellophane, and the lion's collar is lace. Stettheimer was fascinated by cellophane, then a new material, and used it a few decades later when designing costumes for Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts."

From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

#Art #FlorineStettheimer #Modernism #WomenAritsts #CostumeDesign #MixedMedia

"Costume Design (Androcles and the Lion)," Florine Stettheimer, c. 1912.

Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a poet, designer, artist, feminist, and intellectual, with a highly individual style of Modern art.

In 1912, she began to create an opera, which she titled "Orphée des Quat'z Arts," inspired by an annual ball held by Paris art students that combined an excuse to party with a chance to show off their works. They were always masquerades built around some annual theme, and were known for scandalous behavior.

Stettheimer designed costumes, sets, and a libretto for the opera, but it was never produced. However, her costume designs were some of her earliest modernist works that prefigured today's mixed-media art.

Here we have Androcles, riding the lion, only the lion is on a wheeled cart, like a huge toy. The rider, though is interesting; the costume bits are made of cloth and cellophane, and the lion's collar is lace. Stettheimer was fascinated by cellophane, then a new material, and used it a few decades later when designing costumes for Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts."

From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

#Art #FlorineStettheimer #Modernism #WomenAritsts #CostumeDesign #MixedMedia

"Costume Design (Androcles and the Lion)," Florine Stettheimer, c. 1912.

Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a poet, designer, artist, feminist, and intellectual, with a highly individual style of Modern art.

In 1912, she began to create an opera, which she titled "Orphée des Quat'z Arts," inspired by an annual ball held by Paris art students that combined an excuse to party with a chance to show off their works. They were always masquerades built around some annual theme, and were known for scandalous behavior.

Stettheimer designed costumes, sets, and a libretto for the opera, but it was never produced. However, her costume designs were some of her earliest modernist works that prefigured today's mixed-media art.

Here we have Androcles, riding the lion, only the lion is on a wheeled cart, like a huge toy. The rider, though is interesting; the costume bits are made of cloth and cellophane, and the lion's collar is lace. Stettheimer was fascinated by cellophane, then a new material, and used it a few decades later when designing costumes for Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts."

From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

#Art #FlorineStettheimer #Modernism #WomenAritsts #CostumeDesign #MixedMedia

"Picnic at Bedford Hills," Florine Stettheimer, 1918.

Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American painter, who was also a theatrical designer, writer, and all-around intellectual of early 20th century New York.

Born into a wealthy family, she was able to travel around Europe and America, eventually returning to New York where she designed opera sets, painted, and ran one of the city's most respected salons. (Not a beauty salon, but a discussion salon!)

She developed a highly individual Modernist style, often very representational but still with many unusual elements, like the yellow grass in this painting, which otherwise would be a straightforward depiction of a picnic. We know who they are...the women are Florine and her two sisters, Carrie and Ettie, and the men are sculptor Elie Nadelman and notorious avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp. I wish I knew which was which, but it seems there's some beguiling stories to be told here...

From the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

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