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Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about c. 2300 –1751 BC in the Indus Valley civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan), [1] which was one of the earliest cities. The statue is 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) tall, and depicts a nude young woman or girl with stylized ornaments, standing in a ...
The Dancing Girl (painting and silk cloth) in Lululaund mansion. The inscription says: Dancing is a form of rhythm Rhythm is a form of music Music is a form of thought And thought is a form of divinity. Date: circa 1900
The Dancing Girl, a lost American 1915 silent film drama; Dancing Girl, a 1957 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Shimizu; The Dancing Girl, an 1891 play by Henry Arthur Jones; Dancing Girl (Rabindranath Tagore), a 1905 painting by Rabindranath Tagore; Dancing Girl (Maihime), fictional work by Yasunari Kawabata based on the life of Olga Sapphire
The Dancing Girl (Polish: Tancerka) is a 1927 bronze statue by Stanisław Jackowski, located in Warsaw, Poland. It is placed in the Skaryszew Park, within the neighbourhood of Saska Kępa in the district of Praga-South. It was unveiled on 6 August 1927. The sculpture depicts a female dancer.
In March 1909, Matisse painted a preliminary version of this work, known as Dance (I). [3] It was a compositional study and uses paler colors and less detail. [4] The painting was highly regarded by the artist who once called it "the overpowering climax of luminosity"; it is also featured in the background of Matisse's Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance I", (1912).
The history of the stance is often said to reach back to the famous Dancing Girl from Mohenjo-Daro, of about c. 2300–1750 BCE, [7] although this does not exactly show the usual later form. It may well derive from dance before art, [8] but the remaining record in early art is more clear. The earliest versions are nearly all in female figures ...
The important place of women in dance can be traced back to the origins of civilization. Cave paintings, Egyptian frescos, Indian statuettes, ancient Greek and Roman art and records of court traditions in China and Japan all testify to the important role women played in ritual and religious dancing from the start.
Dance (Matisse) Dance Around the Golden Calf; Dance at Bougival; The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dance II; Dance in the City; Dance in the Country; The Dance Lesson; The Dance of Life (Munch) Dance of Salome (paintings) The Dance of the Villagers; A Dance to the Music of Time (painting) Dancer in a Café; Dancers ...