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Isaac Israels – Dancing women, dance halls, and Amsterdam
A new generation of artists emerged in Amsterdam in the early 1880s. These young artists, influenced by the writers Emile Zola and Baudelaire, portrayed the day to day life of ordinary people. Their search for realism drew them to taverns, dance halls, and cafés, places that working class frequented. Isaac Israels, together with his friend,… Read more
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Isaac Israels – A Ballet School in London
The Dutch impressionist Isaac Israels lived in London from 1913 until 1914. The crowded streets of London, the busy traffic, pedestrians strolling along the Thames, Rotten Row, where the fashionable upper class was seen riding, and ballet girls, offered Israëls bountiful material and inspiration. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was not unusual… Read more
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Isaac Israels – Le Moulin de la Galette
When Isaac Israels (1865-1934), settles in Paris in 1904 he was already a fully-fledged artist. Son of Jozef Israëls, a major Dutch artist, Isaac, an impressionist, was inspired by the everyday life. He painted street scenes, park scenes, working girls, nursemaids, people relaxing in cafés and many dancers. His oeuvre includes, dancers in cafés, Spanish… Read more
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Kees van Dongen at Le Moulin de la Galette
Bal du moulin de la Galette, that immensely popular painting by Pierre-August Renoir, shows Parisians, dancing, drinking, and socializing, in the open air dance hall, Le Moulin de la Galette. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting Moulin de la Galette presents an interior scene of the same establishment showing the darker side of Montmartre, where women of ill… Read more
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Jan Sluijters – Dance re-visited
Not long after the Prix de Rome scholarship was revoked,* Jan Sluijters left Amsterdam to work in the countryside. He devoted himself to a variety of subjects, including landscapes, portraits, and nudes, and practically neglected dance. Years later, the German expressionist dancer Gertrud Leistikow revived his interest. Leistikow had toured regularly in the Netherlands since… Read more
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Electric Light – Let’s dance
Paris, the City of Light, was the place to be; the Parisian art world, at the turn of the 20th century, was adventurous and innovative. Artists explored new avenues, exploited new themes and were inspired by the invention of electric light. Various Dutch artists, Kees van Dongen, Leo Gestel, Jan Sluijters, and Kees Maks, were… Read more
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About me
As a young aspiring dancer I loved to ponder over the magnificent paintings created by Edgar Degas. How his ballerinas inspired me. The atmosphere of the Paris Opera, the beautiful tutus and the hard working dancers never failed to trigger my imagination. As the years past, I retained my love of dance, of Degas, of art, and developed an interest in knowing more about the cross fertilization between art and dance.
DANCE IMAGES IN THE ART OF THE NETHERLANDS 