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National Museum, New Delhi, Delhi. 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 ...
Bronze. Height. 165 cm. Opening date. 6 August 1927. 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.
Dance. (Matisse) Dance (La Danse) is a painting made by Henri Matisse in 1910, at the request of Russian businessman and art collector Sergei Shchukin, who bequeathed the large decorative panel to the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. The composition of dancing figures is commonly recognized as "a key point of (Matisse's) career and in the ...
History. Dancing Girl was sculpted by local sculptor Lim Nang Seng following an urgent commission from then member of parliament for Tiong Bahru, Ch'ng Jit Koon, who wanted the Seng Poh Garden to be given greater prominence. [2] As the commission was urgent, Lim chose to sculpt an abstract sculpture, featuring a girl doing a joyful harvest ...
August Malmström's Dancing Fairies is a widely recognised work in its home country. Malmström, who was a professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, was one of the Swedish artists who aspired to create a national Swedish art. He used themes both from Norse mythology and folklore, and his images often depicted fairies and other spirits of ...
Spinning dancer. The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, [1][2] involves the apparent direction of motion ...
The Painter of the Berlin Dancing Girl was an Apulian red-figure vase painter, who was active between 430–410 BC. [citation needed] He was named after a calyx krater in the collection of the Antikensammlung Berlin, [1] which depicts a girl dancing to the aulos played by a seated woman. As one of the first South Italian red-figure painters, he ...
Women in dance. 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.