LIGHT EXPERIMENTS IN THE THEATER PROJECTS OF M.LARIONOV AND N.GONCHAROVA

References: 3rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2016, www.sgemsocial.org , SGEM2016 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-53-7 / ISSN 2367-5659, Apr 06-09, Book 4, Vol.1, 315-322 pp, DOI: 10.5593/SGEMSOCIAL2016/HB41/S06.040

ABSTRACT
The article is devoted to the creativity of prominent Russian avant-garde artists Michail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova, who worked in the theater and developed their own unique and innovative styles in the decorative theater art. The article analyzes the specific features of their work with theater light during the period of creativity from 1913 until 1930s.
In 1913 Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova created the concept of rayonism - the most luminous movement of Russian avant-garde. In 1913 the manifest of rayonism was published. The same year the first ideas on theater were published by Larionov in the magazine “Caricatures in the theater” and in 1914 his article “On Rayonism in the Theater” was published in the foreword of his exhibition in Paris. This research represents analysis of these publications and indicates the features and innovative ideas concerning theater performances and ideas on the organization of stage space of M.Larionov and N.Goncharova. The theoretical search of Larionov and Goncharova in
the field of theatrical scenery and scenography is compared with the theoretical basics of their innovative system of rayonist painting.

Keywords: Rayonism, theater lightening, Russian avant-garde, scenography, Ballets Russes