Abstract
No two artists in scenic production are as closely related through their craft as the scenic artist and the scenic designer. The scenic artist has a very unique role among the many skilled artisans who contribute to scenic production. This role often (but not always) singles the scenic artist out as the key translator of the scenic designer's work from the drawing board to the stage. Stage design styles vary from degrees of sculptural to two-dimensional “painted” scenery, all of which place different emphasis on scenic art, which might require very little sophisticated painting or quite a lot. Many professional scenic artists are also excellent scenic designers. The easy crossover between the two disciplines might be due to the long tradition of stage design being a painter's art. This commonalty is why the scenic artist is able, perhaps more than any other vocation in the theatre, to understand fully and express the scenic designer's work.
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