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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 7 page paper examines the
differences and similarities of the
1909 paintings Dance I and Dance II
initially separated by continents for
eighty years. "This dance was in me, I
did not need to warm myself up: I
proceeded with elements that were
already alive," Matisse says of the
works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Page Count:
7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBmatis.doc.
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Henri Matisse was 40 in the fall of 1910, when he made a special trip to Munich to see a huge exhibition of what was then called "Mohammedan"
art. He paid particular attention there to the rugs, bronzes and Persian miniatures. But they could not have come as a complete surprise. Hed known enough to make the trip,
after all, and you could make a case that the fields of color and calligraphic rhythms of his 1909 paintings such as "The Dance"-versions one and two -- and Harmony
in Red had something of Persian painting about them already. But, then, the core of Islamic art, as of Matisses painting, is assimilation., or the transformation of the idea
or form, of one object into another. Matisse felt free to use a blend of all items at his artistic disposal, plus using the aesthetic principles of what he
called the "Orient," meaning Islam (Wallach 65). The paintings of this period which we will examine are the two versions of the 1909
The Dance. Initially we might ask why would Matisse use the same subject matter in so similar a way. It is just as easy to ask why not.
Any artist may be intrigued by a subject and ask the proverbial - "what if" concerning that subject or idea. Then the question may be, are we
looking at a painted version of movement or an expression of joy? Which leads to a "what if" on its own - and this "what if" may be, that
it does not matter which of the two, the artist intended, and the delightfulness of the works themselves, is that the answer may be determined by the viewer.
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