Matisse

Title: Matisse
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
Details: Words: 428 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

Matisse

Matisse’s Dance Henry Matisse illustrates five women dancing around in a circular pattern in his painting Dance. The nude, fair-skinned women all have slender bodies with black hair pulled back on their shoulders. They look very carefree and alive dancing around with joined hands. The tallest woman looks as if she is the leader because she is not holding hands with the woman on her right. Matisse may have done this to show where …showed first 75 words of 428 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 428 total…very different than that of the poem’s speaker. In the poem, Safir implies that the women are dancing around full of glee. In contrast, I think that they are very serious and ritualistic in their dancing. They look very determined to keep the circle together so that evil cannot get in. Safir and I have different views of the painting, but I can fully understand how different people can reach such vastly diverse conclusions.

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