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CoBrA, Karel Appel, & Dance
How can one define CoBrA? Non-traditional, original, bold, and provocative. The term CoBrA, an acronym of the capital cities of its founding artists—Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam—was coined by Christian Dotremont. CoBrA was established in 1948. The artists, including Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret, rejected both naturalism and abstraction. They Read more
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De Ploeg – An Occasional Ballet Image
The Dutch word ploeg means ‘to plough’. And that is exactly what a collective of artists, writers and architects living in and around Groningen, a major city in the northern Netherlands, achieved. The artists of De Ploeg delved into impressionism, constructivism and expressionism, exploring new paths, ploughing, as they put it, the artistic soil in Read more
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De Ploeg – Colour, Creativity, and Dance
In Groningen, a city located in the northern Netherlands, a collective of innovative young artists, writers, and architects united to establish new opportunities for prime movers to showcase their work. They sought to discard the traditional and explore new paths. A creative association, De Ploeg, was formed in 1918. The term De Ploeg, meaning ‘the Read more
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Ballerinas by Dutch Artists
If you ask anyone to name the artist renowned for painting ballerinas, the response will undoubtedly be Edgar Degas (1834-1917). His paintings of romantic ballerinas are legendary. Degas sought a synthesis between Impressionism and Realism. His ballerinas were often ethereal, but his paintings also rendered a realistic depiction of the hard-working ballet dancers at the Read more
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Artists in the Ballet Studio
Dutch and Flemish artists are renowned for their paintings of peasant and social dances. Images of dance classes, ballet lessons, or dancers in a studio setting, though, are less common. In my last post, I discussed images of dance lessons prior to the 20th century. This post examines how later Dutch artists portrayed young and Read more
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From Dancing Lesson to Ballet Studio
Artwork depicting dancers taking ballet classes or portraying individuals during dance lessons is relatively uncommon. Edgar Degas, of course, painted dancers training at the barre and rehearsing under the watchful eye of the ballet master, but Degas stands out as the exception. Artists hailing from The Low Countries are renowned for their peasant and social 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 