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"Nikia" ballet "La Bayadere" by U. Lopatkina
Makovezkaya Natalia- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50 × 70 cm
- Year
- 2018
A ballerina in a jeweled white and blue costume arches backward in a lush painted jungle, eyes closed among palms and pink lotus blossoms.
- Style
- Academic
- Mood
- Dreamy
- Themes
- Figurative · Women · Botanic
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About this work
A dancer bends deeply backward on pointe, one arm curved above her head and the other reaching toward a spray of pale orange blossoms, her eyes closed in concentration. She wears a fitted, bead-encrusted bodice and a long white skirt trimmed with blue scrollwork, standing on a dark tiled floor before a dense backdrop of broad tropical leaves, ferns, and two pink lotus flowers.
Soft light models her bare arms and shoulders while the surrounding foliage is built up in flatter, decorative patches of green and ochre, giving the figure a naturalistic weight against a more stylized, tapestry-like jungle. The contrast between polished academic figure painting and patterned backdrop lends the scene a hushed, exotic, dreamlike stillness.
