Dance with Veils is a painting by Eric Glaser which was uploaded on June 28th, 2021.
Dance with Veils
Dance with Veils
Artist: Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Title: Dance with Veils
Original Title: La danse au... more
by Eric Glaser
Title
Dance with Veils
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
"Dance with Veils"
Artist: Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Title: Dance with Veils
Original Title: La danse au voiles
Date: 1907
Style: Analytical Cubism
Period: African Period
Genre: Genre painting
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Collection: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Dimensions: 150 x 100 cm
Picasso's experiments in formulating new ways of representing the human body were enhanced in 1907 by the introduction of a new technique into his paintings - the use of hatch marks. These are most evident in his Dance with Veils, where close parallel lines are deployed to suggest volume and shading. These lines, often referred to as striations, appear throughout the work, to model both the female body and the space it inhabits.
The deliberately inconsistent use of such shading, however, serves to undermine our sense of a real, three-dimensional body in real space. Instead, the form seems to be constructed from a series of intersecting geometrical planes, which in turn echo the similar geometrical planes that make up the surrounding space, making the contours of the female nude difficult to discern. This hatching technique is most commonly deployed in drawing and printmaking, where linear execution and the absence of color make it a useful means to imply depth. Here, however, Picasso employs it in an oil painting as a means to investigate different possibilities for the representation of the body in space.
Text Credit: pablopicasso.org
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Additional image editing by Eric Glaser
Uploaded
June 28th, 2021
