Doing the Flat Foot Floogie 1937

'Doing the Flat Foot Floogie' is a print by Alfred Bendiner. It's all about movement, you can almost feel the music. I imagine Bendiner sketching these figures, trying to capture that energy. See the way the limbs intersect and overlap? It's like he’s freezing a dance, a moment of pure joy and abandon. The stark monochrome gives it a kind of timeless feel. It makes me wonder what else was happening in art at the time. I bet Bendiner was checking out other artists, maybe even riffing on their ideas. I keep thinking about that gesture of one figure pointing up to the sky - like they're catching the beat from the air. You know, painting is like that too; it's about catching something elusive, something you can't quite put your finger on.