Right of Spring #4

Right of Spring #4, 2013

This is a series of drawings I did around 2013. I was interested in a few things here.

I wanted to show a group of women in ballet n motion. I don’t think I fully reached that. I wanted to show some tension here with how the ladies are standing in pain and on toes and how they are human not perfect creatures. As I’m looking back on it, I appreciate it more as I think about it. I think that it works well, but is hard to look at.

I also wanted to think about music and dance as art. And history as art. I wanted to show Tchaikovsky’s Right of Spring where audiences rioted when they first saw this stiff ballet dance.

I can’t find them, I had a few drawings that were including the audience rising in anger.

Right of Spring #5, 2013

I have been wanting to come back to this idea… dancers, people in motion, for a while. I think I want to take some post cubist elements…

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Comtesse d'Haussonville

I’d love to play with some Ingres ideas. I mean… look at this. this is an insane picture. This picture knocked me for a loop. Ingres had such a f’d up mind. I love it. And I could see this working well with post cubism sentiments & the motion of dance or something like the Bellows fight paintings.

Study

I have some unfinished drawings and sketches. I’ll try to take some pictures of and include in this post in the future.

Unfinished study

I was trying to imagine Tchaikovsky and the ballet dancers being run out of Moscow.