Venue: Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ 08619
Date: Aug 2,2014
It was a cloudy day and rained intermittently. As I was walking along a trail in the park trying to negotiate a puddle, I looked up and let out an involuntary 'Awwwwwww'.
Right in front of me at a distance atop a small hillock were the huge sculptures made of Aluminium and steel dancing against the grey overcast sky as though welcoming the cool rain in an otherwise warm weather. That was the tribute to the great Matisse?s ?The Dance?.And what a wonderful idea to find an ideal place for the installation! It was a wonderful sight set in the greenery and the reflections in the water added to the beauty. I couldn't go near them to take a close shot,but managed to capture the beauty of the scene to savour for the rest of my life.
Camera: CanonSx130IS, handheld, standard settings, image cropped and reduced to FAR requirements.
ENJOY!
'The Dance'
1909 to 1910
Matisse, Henri
The pair of panels known as "The Dance and Music" (also in the Hermitage) are amongst Matisse's most important - and most famous - works of the period 1908 to 1913. They were commissioned in 1910 by one of the leading Russian collectors of French late 19th and early 20th-century art, Sergey Shchukin. Until the Revolution of 1917, they hung on the staircase of his Moscow mansion.