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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Not long after the Prix de Rome scholarship was revoked,* Jan Sluijters left Amsterdam to work in the countryside.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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Jan Sluijters – Spanish Dancers
1906. Jan Sluijters, recipient of the prestigious Prix de Rome, travelled to Spain to study the old masters. Apart from working in the Prado, Sluijters became fascinated by the Spanish dance, visiting the local theatres and dance venues. There, Sluijters drew sketches of these Spanish beauties and on his return to the Netherlands completed The… Read more
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The Magnificent Red Dancer
Red is a powerful colour. Red embraces our more positive emotions, but also embodies our concerns and anxiety. It can symbolize energy, action, power as well as love, passion, and beauty. Red, in daily life, is laden with symbolism, and no less so throughout the history of art. In Royal portraits, the monarch is often… Read more
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Kees van Dongen: the exotic, erotic dancer
As a young man, the Dutch artist, Kees van Dongen travelled to Paris. He resided in Montmartre, living in a flat with a view of the Moulin de la Galette, the famous dance hall, from his rear window. The dance-halls, the circus, the cafés, the theatres all sparked Van Dongen’s imagination. His models were harlots,… 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 