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- Dec 17, 2017
Shopeniana. M. Fokin, V. Fokina
Makovezkaya Natalia- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 70 × 70 cm
- Year
- 2017
A ballet couple in white and navy costume pose in a lifted-arm arch on a checkered stage, corps de ballet dancing behind them.
- Style
- Academic
- Mood
- Dramatic
- Themes
- Genre Scene · Figurative · Women · Men
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About this work
A male dancer in a dark blue tunic and white tights stands beside a ballerina in a white romantic tutu with a blue sash, their raised hands joined to form an arch overhead. They occupy the foreground on a blue-and-tan checkered floor, while four more dancers in pale yellow tutus pose and dance in pairs across the reddish, tree-lined backdrop behind them.
Warm reddish-brown tones fill the backdrop and floor, contrasting with the cool white and blue of the principal dancers' costumes, built up with thick, textured highlights suggesting tulle and satin. Background figures are painted more softly and dimly, pushing them into shadowed distance behind the sharply lit couple. The composition reads as a staged, formal, graceful moment.
