{"id":43860,"date":"2024-08-05T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/?p=43860"},"modified":"2025-01-03T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T14:20:01","slug":"leon-bakst-and-his-ballets-russes-who-revolutionized-art-dance-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/en\/leon-bakst-and-his-ballets-russes-who-revolutionized-art-dance-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00e9on Bakst and his Ballets Russes who revolutionized art, dance and design."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1_Lulu-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-44483 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1_Lulu-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1_Lulu-1.jpg 653w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1_Lulu-1-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Lul\u00f9 with red hair\u00a0<\/i>by Beatrice Brandini<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2-Leon_Bakst.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-43840 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2-Leon_Bakst.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2-Leon_Bakst.jpeg 685w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2-Leon_Bakst-201x300.jpeg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Illustration by L\u00e9on Bakst<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Watching the beautiful series <i>Becoming Karl Lagerfeld<\/i> (available on Disney+), Karl&#8217;s words about the genius of L\u00e9on Bakst came to mind, that is, how much this extraordinary and eclectic artist influenced and conditioned 20th-century design.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3-Leon-Bakst-.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3-Leon-Bakst--300x211.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3-Leon-Bakst--300x211.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3-Leon-Bakst--768x539.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3-Leon-Bakst-.jpeg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sketches by L\u00e9on Bakst<\/b><\/p>\n<p>His costumes for the Ballets Russes, a happy marriage of dance, music, choreography and design, in which futurism, cubism and surrealism merged together, scandalizing and exciting an audience that was initially French, but then the whole world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4-769x1024.jpeg 769w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4-768x1023.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4.jpeg 961w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sketch by L\u00e9on Bakst<\/b><\/p>\n<p>L\u00e9on Bakst (1866 &#8211; 1924) was a painter, set designer, illustrator and of course costume designer. Having arrived in Paris together with Sergej Djaghilev, a revolutionary impresario, they founded, also with Alexandre Benois, the magazine Mir iskusstva where he published his first graphic works. In the early 1900s he began working as a set and costume designer for the imperial theaters of St. Petersburg, a collaboration, that with the Ballets Russes, which would characterize much of his life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/5.jpeg 369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sketch by L\u00e9on Bakst<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first production of the company, called Ballets Russes, was a program with pieces from Russian operas and ballets, with Russian music and dancers. For this program Bakst designed the spectacular decorations and costumes for Cl\u00e9op\u00e2tre in 1909, becoming the main set designer of the company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/6-232x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/6-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/6.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sketch by L\u00e9on Bakst<\/b><\/p>\n<p>His costumes were Fantastic, a mix of oriental, gothic and classical reminiscences, to perfectly interpret movement, sound and color. His creations have been called <i>\u201csketches in motion\u201d<\/i>, precisely because they were able to merge all the arts, making the theatrical costume an integral and significant part of the work itself.In his intense career he will collaborate with Gabrielle D\u2019Annunzio for the staging of Le Martyre de Saint S\u00e9bastien, with music by Claude Debussy. But also with Jean Cocteau and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most beautiful theatrical creations we remember those for <i>Cleopatra, Scheherazade, The Firebird and Narcissus.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/7-bakst_self.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/7-bakst_self-173x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/7-bakst_self-173x300.jpeg 173w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/7-bakst_self.jpeg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Self-portrait by L\u00e9on Bakst<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIn every color there are shades that sometimes express sincerity and chastity, sometimes sensuality and even brutality, sometimes pride, sometimes despair. It can be\u2026 transmitted to the audience\u2026 This is what I tried to do in Scheherazade. On the sad green I put blue, full of despair\u2026 There are solemn reds and reds that kill\u2026 An artist who knows how to take advantage of these properties is like an orchestra conductor\u2026\u201d <\/i>\u2013 Leon Bakst.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8-saint-laurent_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8-saint-laurent_2-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8-saint-laurent_2-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8-saint-laurent_2-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8-saint-laurent_2.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/9-saint-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/9-saint--300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/9-saint--300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/9-saint--768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/9-saint-.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Creations by Yves Saint Laurent inspired by the Ballets Russes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>His creations, decidedly innovative for the time, also had a great influence on costume. Ladies all over Europe adopted turbans, wide trousers, hairstyles with colored wigs and feathers. And in more modern times, many designers and fashion houses have been inspired by his costumes (Fendi, Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano, Max Mara\u2026).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/10-galliano.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/10-galliano-193x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/10-galliano-193x300.jpeg 193w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/10-galliano.jpeg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/11-max-mara.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/11-max-mara-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/11-max-mara-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.beatricebrandini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/11-max-mara.jpeg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A creation by John Galliano and\u00a0<\/b><b>Max Mara for Resort collectio<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Today, one hundred years after his death, we can only celebrate him, paying homage to a true artist who upset the aesthetics of the time and who continues to influence us.<\/p>\n<p>Good life to everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lul\u00f9 with red hair\u00a0by Beatrice Brandini Illustration by L\u00e9on Bakst Watching the beautiful series Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (available on Disney+), Karl&#8217;s words about the genius of L\u00e9on Bakst came to 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