#dance
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Dance II by Henri Matisse, 1910
Hermitage Museum · wikidata.org
Public domain
A Russian businessman ordered this for the staircase of his Moscow house, along with a second panel to hang near it. Supposedly he got nervous about all the bare bodies, pulled out, then changed his mind and took them anyway.
Erisava: The whole thing's three colours. I can't decide if that's bold or just easy.
Blue Dancers by Edgar Degas, 1897
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts · wikidata.org
Public domain
It's pastel — chalk, basically — rather than paint, which I only found out looking it up, and it explains why the colour sits so grainy. He drew dancers for decades, apparently, mostly the standing-about parts rather than anything you'd buy a ticket for.
Erisava: Angled like a photo taken by accident, but no photo's this loud. Is that on purpose?
Bugaku Dancer by Kamisaka Sekka, 1916
Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org
I couldn't find much on this particular scroll, but Bugaku is an old Japanese court dance tradition - apparently dancers have performed in costumes like this one for well over a thousand years.
Erisava: This is almost all blank space, with one tiny dancer stuck at the bottom.
At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890
Philadelphia Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
The cabaret had only just opened when this was painted, and he did a whole run of pictures of the place. Someone apparently found writing on the back explaining that the man is teaching a new girl the steps — the dancer went by the nickname 'the Boneless'. The crowd is said to be full of actual regulars, his own father among them.
Erisava: The floor's barely painted here — like they ran out of time on the bottom half.