Still Life Painting Studio : Gouache Paints and Techniques to Capture the Beauty of Everyday Objects - Elizabeth Mayville

Still Life Painting Studio

Gouache Paints and Techniques to Capture the Beauty of Everyday Objects

By: Elizabeth Mayville, Walter Foster Publishing (Created by)

Activity Kit | 1 October 2014 | Edition Number 1

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Forget everything you think you know about contemporary theater design. The explosive work of Russian-born George Tsypin is changing the way audiences see theatrical productions of all kinds, and it will alter the way you think about what you see on a stage. Thanks to Tsypin, the days of stark, minimalist, almost empty sets are over.

His maximalist creations fill the theater's black void with a fevered combination of elements, referencing everything from Russian Constructivism to the works of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid. Set design, under his direction, is a unique form of architecture, a celebration of structural and sculptural possibility. George Tsypin Opera Factory shows Tsypin's works for the most important opera houses in the world, from New York's Metropolitan Opera to Milan's La Scala to Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater.

The book also features work outside of opera, including the MTV Video Music Awards, the Russian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, and the Millennium Cities project for Doncaster, England. These pieces include a head of the Statue of Liberty thrust onto the body of the Tatlin Tower and a glass and steel skyscraper that simultaneously rises from and falls into a lake. In all his work, Tsypin redefines the parameters of contemporary stage design. As Grigory Revzin writes in his introduction, "In Tsypin's work avant-garde ideas return to their natural environment, to an enormously energetic and large-scale attempt to transform reality into magic reality."

About the Author

Elizabeth Mayville earned her BFA in 2006 and has been making paintings of the details of everyday life ever since. Her paintings can be found in private collections around the world. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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