1914, Emil Nolde, Stilleben mit zwei Tänzerinnen (Still Life with Dancers) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: The expressive touch, the absence of contour and the more vivid colours add to the frenetic feeling of the dance.
During the 1910s, Emil Nolde painted still lifes contrasting objects from German folk art with oriental and far-eastern cultures. Here the bouquets of tulips and a statuette representing a cow combine with a dance scene inspired by one of his own paintings, The Dance of the Golden Calf (1910, Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne), to form an astonishing eclectic altar.
1914, Emil Nolde, Stilleben mit zwei Tänzerinnen (Still Life with Dancers) -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: The expressive touch, the absence of contour and the more vivid colours add to the frenetic feeling of the dance.
During the 1910s, Emil Nolde painted still lifes contrasting objects from German folk art with oriental and far-eastern cultures. Here the bouquets of tulips and a statuette representing a cow combine with a dance scene inspired by one of his own paintings, The Dance of the Golden Calf (1910, Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne), to form an astonishing eclectic altar.