Dance (Matisse)
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The Dance (La Danse ) is a painting by Henri Matisse. Matisse painted two versions of the dance. The first version of the image from 1909 is now on display at the Museum of Modern Art (New York). The second version of 1909/10 is located in the Hermitage (St. Petersburg). She was next to the painting La Musique a commissioned work for the Moscow businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin.
Image Construction and Technology
The painting shows five women dancing naked on a hill. In more details renounced Matisse. The vitality and dynamism of the dance can be found even in its basic composition. The figures form a dynamic, oval circle. The clear structure is reduced, and in contrast to the turbulent hill course of the horizon and the movement of people. This reduced statement is reinforced by the rough representation of female nudes and the color application. Matisse resorts only to the default tones blue, yellow, red and black. The 'quiet' colors green and blue he used for the background, people are painted red and yellow colors in the " aggressive ". This creates a complementary contrast.
The original version of dance I had pink for the body instead of red on, sky blue rather than ultramarine blue for the sky, and Veronesergrün instead of emerald green for the grass.
Matisse gave up a spatial representation. Domestic and Shadow are completely absent and the colored areas are delimited with coarse contour lines.
Importance
The dance is considered the most famous paintings by Matisse and a turning point in the artist's work. The contemporary criticism was towards the work very long hostile, today it is because of its reduced and clear statement extremely popular.
Motif
The dance depicted is a motif that can already be found on the Le bonheur de vivre image ( joy of life ) of 1905/ 06, and recurs periodically in Matisse's work as a theme. It goes back to an engraving from the late 16th century by Agostino Carracci entitled Reciprico Amore.
Mural The Dance
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Under the same name exists one of Albert C. Barnes, an important art collector of modern art from Merion, Philadelphia, commissioned large mural for the art gallery of his house. The mural took up the theme of the paintings in a modified form on again; There are two versions on account of error in the measurements; the second version was installed in May 1933 in Merion and is exhibited at the Barnes Foundation. The composition is in its simplicity dancing women in very strong movement in front of an abstract, almost geometric background on three panels that reproduce a rhythmic wave motion. During the preparatory work for the mural Matisse turned to a new process by merging the composition of the cut parts colored paper. It is with the dimensions of 356.8 x 1432.5 cm around the largest mural that Matisse ever painted. The first version is modern at the Musée d'art shown in Paris.