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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 ...
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 ...
The Dancing Girl" A bronze statuette dubbed the "Dancing Girl", 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) high [42] and about 4,500 years old, was found in 'HR area' of Mohenjo-daro in 1926; it is now in the National Museum, New Delhi. [42] In 1973, British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler described the item as his favorite statuette:
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 ...
1985.64.62. [edit on Wikidata] The original wax sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans) is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem.
Annie and Fannie. " Annie " and " Fannie " are a pair of statues in Tacoma, Washington 's Wright Park, in the United States. Sometimes collectively referred to as the " Dancing Girls " and " Greek Maidens ", [1] [2] the sculptures flank the park's entrance at Division Avenue. Depicting dancing Greek maidens, [3] the similar artworks were cast ...
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
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 ...