Dance 1915

Ossip Zadkine made "Dance" in 1915 with ink on paper. Those bold strokes of ink are so alive, aren’t they? I can imagine Zadkine's hand, moving swiftly, trying to capture the essence of movement. It’s all there in those decisive lines, a dance made visible. I wonder what he was thinking as he worked; was he listening to music, feeling the rhythm in his own body? There’s a real energy here, a sense of bodies entwined, caught in a moment of shared motion. That looping line that defines the back of one figure is particularly nice. Thinking about other artists, I'm reminded of Matisse. They both have that knack for capturing form with minimal means. And, like all great art, it feels contemporary, still speaking to us across the years. Art is just artists responding to each other, an ongoing conversation through time.