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The Many Faces of 20th century Dutch Dance Images
The previous post, Dutch artists captivated by Modern Dancers, highlighted artists inspired by modern expressionistic dancers. This post adopts a broader perspective, exploring unique images of dancers as depicted by Dutch artists during the first half of the 20th century. The featured artists employ diverse techniques, and the images range from figurative to near-abstraction. Join… Read more
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Dutch Artists captivated by Modern Dancers
At the dawn of the 20th century, dancers Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller, along with modern dance pioneer and theorist Rudolf von Laban, unveiled a groundbreaking style of dance. These artists aimed for a freedom of movement previously unseen in ballet. The performers acknowledged gravity, explored spatial design, and adopted a natural flow of movement.… Read more
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CoBrA and Beyond
The art collective CoBrA was established shortly after WWII. An international group of artists founded a collaborative network that extended throughout northern Europe. The Dutch, Belgian, and Danish artists challenged traditional art movements and rejected bourgeois art, finding inspiration in Paul Klee, Joan Miró, artworks by children, outsider art, naïve art, and primitive artistic expressions.… Read more
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Before, During, and After CoBrA : Constant & Corneille
CoBrA, the short-lived yet highly impactful art collective, challenged conventional art movements and rejected bourgeois art. The artists were unconventional, innovative, daring, and provocative. The Dutch, Belgian, and Danish artists were influenced by Paul Klee and Joan Miró, as well as children’s art, outsider creations, naïve art, and primitive artistic expressions. CoBrA, an acronym for… Read more
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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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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 