Projection design for Salome
Maker and role
Artist: Jim Dine, American, born 1935
Year
1986
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Charcoal, acrylic, and spray paint on paper
Measurements
38 x 30in (96.5 x 76.2cm)
Credit line
Gift of the artist
Accession number
2014.90.3
Object type
Department
Location
Theatre production
Opera by Richard Strauss. Produced by Houston Grand Opera, 1987.
Further information
Visual artists who also work in theatre are at the heart of the McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts. Like designs by his contemporaries Louise Nevelson and Robert Indiana, Jim Dine’s designs for Salome connect the theatre arts with the McNay’s other collections. For Richard Strauss’ opera, Dine designed projections as well as costumes and scenery. Monumental images of isolated objects, the projections echo imagery from the artist’s paintings, prints and drawings, and sculpture. The heart, hand, torso, fish, seashell, and other motifs also underscore the meaning of the opera, based on the New Testament story of King Herod, his stepdaughter Salome, and the prophet John the Baptist.
Copyright
© Jim Dine/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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