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They always say, take a picture without your head to know what your real shape is like! [smile] But anyway, you get the idea.
Pattern from Mason-Dixon Knitting.
Yarn: Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece.
The pattern doesn't quite match the one in the book, but it's pretty close. I tried to keep the red and the dark pink from touching, but I don't think it would have mattered.
Pattern from Mason-Dixon Knitting.
Yarn: Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece.
The pattern doesn't quite match the one in the book, but it's pretty close. I tried to keep the red and the dark pink from touching, but I don't think it would have mattered.
Matisse: La Danse de Paris
The Henri Matisse room is used for the display of two large versions of La Danse (The Dance) by Henri Matisse: La Danse inachevée (Unfinished Dance, 1931) and La Danse de Paris, 1933. These mural triptychs were produced in preparation for La Danse at Merion (also La Dance II), which was commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania, USA.
Matisse started work on La Danse inachevée in 1931. He drew the eight figures using charcoal attached to a long bamboo. The figures were then painted in grey on a blue background. However, he realized that the size of the work — ca. 355 by 1270 cm (roughly 12 × 42 feet) — would require too much rehandling.
He abandoned this version and used the unfinished work as a pinboard for paper cutouts for a simpler design, which would eventually become La Danse de Paris. La Dance inachevée was rolled up and forgotten until a chance discovery in 1992.
A measuring error forced Matisse to start yet another version. This one, La Dance de Merion, was completed in April 1933 and installed by Matisse at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, USA. It is also sometimes known as La Dance II.
Back in France, Matisse returned to the earlier version. He rearranged the figures and reduced the dancers to six on a background of blue and pink panels. The final La Danse de Paris, 1933, has been on display in the Modern Art Museum since 1937.
The Museum of Modern Art (Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris) displays the 20th-century modern art collection of Paris city in the mid-1930s Palais de Tokyo. Highlights include two large murals by Henri Matisse and a massive fresco celebrating the wonders of electricity by Raoul Dufy. Admission to the permanent collection is free without time-slot reservation tickets. This municipal gallery covers the same period as the more famous Pompidou National Museum (closed until the 2030s).
These are the chocolates that we bought at Chocolopolis in Queen Anne, Seattle. We still haven't finished them, since I've been rationing them a bit.