Post by jennifercyr on Feb 21, 2012 0:51:30 GMT -5
Matisse's finished painting titled The Dance, completed in 1910 and now in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. Cusine Oil Painting The bottom photo shows the full-size, compositional study he made for the painting, now in MOMA in New York, USA. Cottages Oil Painting Matisse painted it on commission from the Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin. Sunflower Oil Painting In her biography of Matisse (on page 30), Hilary Spurling says: "Those who saw the first version of Dance described it as pale, delicate, even dreamlike, painted in colours that were heightened...Abstract Oil Painting in the second version into a fierce, flat frieze of vermilion figures vibrating against bands of bright green and sky. Contemporaries saw the painting as pagan and Dionysian." People Oil Painting