Art Analysis #10: Dance by Alphonse Mucha by sequentialscott, journal
Art Analysis #10: Dance by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
This analysis copyright Scott M. McDaniel, 2009.
The Image
I ended up last week by saying I'd do a Maxfield Parrish piece this time, but I lied horribly. The Parrish piece I'd picked is Daybreak, one of his most popular and well known. It's based on the principles of Dynamic Symmetry. I need some more time to work through that, so I'll do it three weeks from now. Instead, I'm going to do Dance by Alphonse Mucha. It's part of a series of four panneaux based on the muses (some of them, anyway). Aside from Dance, there are (from left to right) Poetry, Music, and Painting. This Art Nouveau style may have come before th