Poetic Transformations in Matisse's Earliest Dance Images

Matisse's early dance paintings Joy of Life, Dance (I), and Dance (II) appear in countless art books in which their public receptions are repeatedly treated in a superficial manner. The fame of these works needs to be understood in a fuller context for students of dance and art. Matisse's early dance paintings are carefully examined in terms of their historical influences. His exposure to Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, and the Ballets Russes is considered. The frequent citation of specific folk dances Matisse saw at the time he created these works is challenged. What becomes significant is how poetically Matisse transformed the many sources he absorbed into his own reductive style. Matisse's decades-long interest in dance is demonstrated by select examples from his dance oeuvre. Even as an invalid, Matisse continued to work with dance themes. His joy in watching dance and making dance works, including those for ballet, reflected his passion for colour, motion, and expression of the liveliness he saw in dance. It is hoped that this article can lead to more interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching between dance studies and art history.

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Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Dance Research Journal ◽

10.1017/s0149767714000084 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 96-103

Author(s):

Hanna Järvinen

Keyword(s):

Art History ◽

Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

Set Design ◽

Total Work ◽

Past Performance ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Ballets Russes ◽

Art Form ◽

Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽

A Company

From the outset, I have to admit I am partial to new scholarship on the Ballets Russes, particularly interdisciplinary scholarship that offers new perspectives on staged dance as an art form. Hence, two recent books on a company famous for striving for the total work of art effect sounded like an absolute feast. I may have set my expectations high, but these books actually exemplify how easily dance becomes secondary to music and set design in discussions of past performance, and how “interdisciplinary” studies often are anything but. In both books, the analyses offered of dance are, for a dance scholar, implausible, specious, even outright incomprehensible, and the dance-related topic emerges as servile to agendas of other disciplines, namely those of music and art history.

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Children’s ability to edit their memories when learning about the environment from credible and noncredible websites

Cognitive Research Principles and Implications ◽

10.1186/s41235-021-00305-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Kim P. Roberts ◽

Katherine R. Wood ◽

Breanne E. Wylie

Keyword(s):

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Choice Test ◽

Multiple Choice Test ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Older Children ◽

Inaccurate Information ◽

The Many ◽

The Individual ◽

Many Sources ◽

Website Content

AbstractOne of the many sources of information easily available to children is the internet and the millions of websites providing accurate, and sometimes inaccurate, information. In the current investigation, we examined children’s ability to use credibility information about websites when learning about environmental sustainability. In two studies, children studied two different websites and were tested on what they had learned a week later using a multiple-choice test containing both website items and new distracters. Children were given either no information about the websites or were told that one of the websites (the noncredible website) contained errors and they should not use any information from that website to answer the test. In both studies, children aged 7- to 9-years reported information from the noncredible website even when instructed not to, whereas the 10- to 12-year-olds used the credibility warning to ‘edit out’ information that they had learned from the noncredible website. In Study 2, there was an indication that the older children spontaneously assessed the credibility of the website if credibility markers were made explicit. A plausible explanation is that, although children remembered information from the websites, they needed explicit instruction to bind the website content with the relevant source (the individual websites). The results have implications for children’s learning in an open-access, digital age where information comes from many sources, credible and noncredible. Education in credibility evaluation may enable children to be critical consumers of information thereby resisting misinformation provided through public sources.

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A new noise detected in the ocean

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315407058225 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 87 (5) ◽

pp. 1255-1256 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Angel Guerra ◽

Xavier Martinell ◽

Angel F. González ◽

Michael Vecchione ◽

Joaquin Gracia ◽

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Keyword(s):

Ambient Noise ◽

Sound Production ◽

Biological Activities ◽

Physical Processes ◽

Defensive Strategy ◽

Reflection And Refraction ◽

Turbulent Pressure ◽

In The Wild ◽

The Many ◽

Many Sources

Many observers have noted that the sea is full of loud sounds, both ongoing and episodic. Among the many sources of natural ambient noise are wave action, physical processes such as undersea earthquakes, and biological activities of shrimps, fish, dolphins and whales. Despite interest by acoustics experts, sound production by cephalopods has been reported only twice, both involving squid. The ‘faint poppings’ produced were thought to result from fluttering of the thin external lips of the squid's funnel while water is being expelled through it. Otherwise, no information is available on cephalopod sounds. Here we present a noise produced by a stressed common octopus. The event was filmed and recorded in the wild. The hypothesis we offer to explain how this sound was produced is cavitation, which has been documented in several biological systems. In our case, the water expelled through the funnel may have created a jet with a velocity so high that the turbulent pressure dropped locally below the vapour pressure of the water. Seawater contains gas microbubbles, which will grow in size when they are entrained in the region of low pressure. Subsequently, the bubbles collapse violently when pressure rises again. The sound produced by the octopus is like a gunshot, and distinct lights observed at the same time contradict the existence of a simple pressure wave and point to the possible presence of gas-bubbles, which would change the light intensity by reflection and refraction of the sunlight. This behaviour seems to be a defensive strategy to escape from vibration-sensitive predators.

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Génio e graça estética: uma arqueologia dos discursos sobre ensino da dança em Portugal (1839-1930)

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença ◽

10.1590/2237-2660113482 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jorge Ramos do Ó ◽

Ana Luísa Paz ◽

Tomás Vallera

Keyword(s):

Ballets Russes ◽

Isadora Duncan

RESUMO O artigo identifica a emergência de diagnósticos e soluções em torno dos fins e dos meios do ensino da dança em Portugal, e que derivaram na defesa continuada de um Conservatório por vir. Concentra-se em dois momentos - o século XIX e a Primeira República - durante os quais se impôs um discurso em torno da antinomia aptidão natural vs. aprendizagem universal. Com os programas de dança teatral estatuídos em 1911, procura-se suspender esta dicotomia. Porém, estas formações discursivas continuaram a reconduzir os princípios da graça estética e do individualismo do génio, exponenciados pela perceção que então se cultivava da vanguarda estrangeira (Isadora Duncan e Ballets Russes).

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Use of text mining techniques for unsupervised organization of digital procedural acts

Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada ◽

10.22456/2175-2745.83581 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 74

Author(s):

Alfredo Silveira Araújo Neto ◽

Marcos Negreiros

Keyword(s):

Data Mining ◽

Text Mining ◽

Text Documents ◽

Digital Format ◽

Large Databases ◽

Context Data ◽

Self Discovery ◽

The Many ◽

Many Sources ◽

And Storage

The rapid advances in technologies related to the capture and storage of data in digital format have allowed to organizations the accumulation of a volume of information extremely high, constituted a higher proportion of data in unstructured format, represented by texts. However, it is noted that the retrieval of useful information from these large repositories has been a very challenging activity. In this context, data mining is presented as a self-discovery process that acts on large databases and enables the knowledge extraction from raw text documents. Among the many sources of textual documents are electronic diaries of justice, which are intended to make public officially all the acts of the Judiciary. Despite the publication in digital form has provided improvements represented by the removal of imperfections related to divulgation at printed format, it is observed that the application of data mining methods could render more rapid analysis of its contents. In this sense, this article establishes a tool capable of automatically grouping and categorizing digital procedural acts, based on the evaluation of text mining techniques applied to groups determination activity. In addition, the strategy of defining the descriptors of the groups, that is usually conducted based on the most frequent words in the documents, was evaluated and remodeled in order to use, instead of words, the most regularly identified concepts in the texts.

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Official publications and the art librarian

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200002789 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 17-26

Author(s):

Valerie J. Bradfield

Keyword(s):

British Government ◽

Future Developments ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Many ◽

Many Sources

There is a wide range of publications available from the British Government which may be of interest to art librarians, and this article provides an outline, and a guide to the many sources for tracing and obtaining them. It goes on to indicate recent changes in the patterns of official publishing, and likely future developments in the eighties.

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IRIS: Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200014218 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 26-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Anna Mieli ◽

Margaret D’Ambrosio

Keyword(s):

Art History ◽

International Project ◽

Italian Renaissance ◽

Scholarly Community ◽

Art Historians ◽

Art And Culture ◽

The Many ◽

Community Access

Florence in Italy, a renowned centre for art and culture, has been called a ‘living museum’ of the Italian Renaissance. Today it is also the site of a co-operative international project bringing the world’s scholarly community access to the bibliographic patrimonies of a group of special art and humanities libraries. The IRIS consortium is a unique resource for art historians, but it is also of value and use for anyone interested in the many aspects of this rich artistic period.

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On the Consideration of the many sources of Variability

American Journal of Epidemiology ◽

10.1093/aje/163.suppl_11.s189-a ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 163 (suppl_11) ◽

pp. S189-S189

Author(s):

M.J Nicolich

Keyword(s):

The Many ◽

Many Sources

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Two decades of change in Dutch university art libraries

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200016114 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 34 (4) ◽

pp. 24-28

Author(s):

Martien Versteeg

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Art History ◽

The Other ◽

The Public ◽

Dutch Art ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Many ◽

Library User

In 1987 Chris Smeenk wrote in this journal about the libraries of the Dutch art historical institutes. In the 22 years that have since passed many changes have occurred, perhaps most notably the merging of the many autonomous institute libraries into larger ones. Has this led to a more professional approach or was it caused by a search for more efficiency? Does this really matter? The fact is that Smeenk, or any other library user familiar with Dutch art history libraries, would hardly recognise the situation at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Maybe he would complain about the disappearance of the traditional academic institute librarian, but on the other hand he might be cheered by many other developments, such as the more central role of services for the public. Let’s take a look....

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