Dancer

Henri Matisse, Dance 1, 1909,Oil on canvas.

This oil painting portrays the movement of women effortlessly dancing around in a circle.The description of this artwork on google art project states it was effortlessly done but it also shows an image of joy and energy but yet daring. Matisse shows movement from two women on the left emphasized of them being larger along with their legs to the breasts then continuing to the women on the right leaning and fading.I believe the artwork is representational, I notice the faces of the women express a free and joyful appearance but their not looking up to the viewer but they are beautiful from any type of motive. Even though the artwork is simply lacking detail of the human body but it does demonstrates what men or what women are seem to be portrayed as. Although its not as realistic of what were used too in a way it is because it is what a woman has always been demonstrated as from way back till present.  The artwork shows the assets of what someone would concentrate more or defining a woman. "And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others, and ultimately how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by the sense of being appreciated as herself by another". Although Henri Matisse could have done the artwork of the women in clothes in my perspective he may have done it to also show that women also bring passion or beauty to anything they desire or what anyone would portray any woman.