The Dance Henri Matisse

Dance la danse is a painting made by henri matisse in 1910 at the request of russian businessman and art collector sergei shchukin who bequeathed the large decorative panel to the hermitage museum in saint petersburg russia the composition of dancing figures is commonly recognized as a key point of matisse s career and in the development of modern painting.

The dance henri matisse.

The five figures joined together appear to be lost in dance. Henri matisse detail dance i 1909 oil on canvas 259 7 x 390 cm museum of modern art new york city what matisse has done here even in seemingly simple rendering is use spatial ambiguity to explore one of the key issues in modern painting the conflict between the illusion of depth and an acknowledgment of the flatness of the canvas. Matisse the illustrated book jazz conserving henri matisse s the swimming pool practice. He made this painting quickly as a compositional study for dance which was intended to hang on the landing of a staircase in shchukin s home.

Matisse the red studio. The first version of a much paler hue is the preview for the finally. The two were very much the same in content only with a twist on the colour tones used by the artist. When it was painted its simplification of the.

The dance by henri matisse is a two part celebration in the movement of human bodies. With dance henri matisse broke al established rules of genre esthetics harmony order and form paving the way for the develop. The dance and dance i were two famous paintings from the career of french artist henri matisse and came about in 1909 and 1910. Throughout his decades long career as a painter sculptor draftsman and printmaker henri matisse continuously searched in his own words for the same things which i have perhaps realized by different means 1 celebrated as both an orchestrator of tonal harmonies and a draftsman capable of distilling a form to its essentials he long sought a way to unite color.

The pair of panels known as the dance and music also in the hermitage are amongst matisse s most important and most famous works of the period 1908 to 1913. The final painting features a dark blue background that pushes the radiant red bodies to the forefront. In march 1909 matisse received a commission from the russian businessman and collector sergei shchukin for two large decorative panels dance and music now in the hermitage museum st. Both paintings were produced on huge canvases measuring almost exactly the same dimensions.

They were commissioned in 1910 by one of the leading russian collectors of french late 19th and early 20th century art sergey shchukin. This is the currently selected item. Matisse the red studio.