The dance

One of Matisse's most famous paintings. Color was important for the Fauvists, which they used in a small spectrum, but all the more saturated and contrasting. The indicated movement expresses the speed and dynamics of the dance. The position of the bodies then the experience of dance and the emotions it brings with it. Overall, the painting is dominated by joy, which is avoided in Matisse's otherwise often melancholic paintings.

Prevailing color of this fine art print is blue and its shape is landscape. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Henri Matisse (1869-1952). During his long artistic career, he went through perhaps all the major art movements - from Impressionism to Abstractionism. In his early period, he used the elemental composition of the Impressionists, but with a certain formal structure. Arab art influenced him, which he encountered on his travels to Morocco and Algeria (decorativeness of Arab ceramics, richness of detail in tapestries). In his second era, he started to use abstract lines and contrast between the mass of a body and the flat background in his portraits and nudes. Among his famous works are Dance - a beautiful symphony in three symbolic colors (blue - sky, green - earth, red - dance), with a strong expressiveness. Although the abstractly conceived girls dance around the centre, the audience perceives their desire to leave the image. The picture is reminiscent of a dream. Another piece is A Nude from the cycle Blue Nudes. Figures in the paintings are conceived as sculptures - Mattise achieved great expressiveness through excellent distribution of mass in the image and clarity of the image. He proved to his audience that, despite the great frugality of the means of expression, one can achieve excellent results even with something as sensitive as the female nude.