2006-06-21 08:15:28 · 4 answers · asked by PDADDY16 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
The Dance by Henri Matisse
"The Dance is one of the few wholly convincing images of physical ecstasy made in the twentieth century. Matisse is said to have got the idea for it in Collioure in 1905, watching some fishermen and peasants on the beach in a circular dance called a sardana. But the sardana is a stately measure, and The Dance is more intense. That circle of stamping, twisting maenads takes you back down the line, to the red-figure vases of Mediterranean antiquity and, beyond them, to the caves. It tries to represent motions as ancient as dance itself." Robert Hughes
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2006-06-21 08:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by shukuken 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not being a smarta*ss, what you called it might be the title. Lots of old paintings were called exactly what they were. So it could quite possibly be called "Five Naked Women Holding Hands"
2006-06-21 15:19:42 · answer #2 · answered by carmine7972 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is a modern piece you're thinking of, I bet you are thinking of "the Dance" by Henri Matisse. Check it out.
2006-06-21 15:31:32 · answer #3 · answered by Sara 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-21 15:19:12 · answer #4 · answered by deluxe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋