stills from The Angel of Love // inspired by Giorgio de Chirico
These are stills from a video I made for the Surrealist Erotica bonus section and the What is Surrealism series. It is inspired by a dress Giorgio de Chirico designed for the 1929 ballet Le Bal, produced by Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev. I used a skirt that I had already and then I made the top piece out of some fabric I had around and I made the wings out of paper.
One of Giorgio de Chirico's costumes for Le Bal, 1929
The dress, along with other costumes designed by Giorgio de Chirico for Le Bal, 1929
Detail's of my re-created top and wings:
Those costumes are beautiful. I like the drawing on them. Theyre like toys. I dont know anything about the ballet. Is there any connection to surrealism? Or are you just picking random references? Really interesting.
Giorgio de Chirico was sort of a surrealist before surrealism... many of the surrealist painters cite him as an influence... so that's what I'm drawing on. He also designed the set... I found this video of a modern production, its hard to see the costumes, but you can see the set. Le Bal on YouTube
Thanks for the link. Its wonderful.
Very Beautiful!!