Dancing in Art
Written by Teresita Blanco (The Artsy Sister)
We first start by looking at the Ancient Egyptians. They depicted a lot of aspects of their life in their murals. This included art and music.
The Greeks and Roman also depicted dancing in their vases. During medieval art, dancing dropped off the face of the earth.
It came back with the Greeks in the Renaissance period. Dancing typically appeared in paintings of the Bacchanal.
It was rare for dancing to feature contemporary folks. Things continue like so during the baroque and Neoclassical period.
The rococo brought a bit of court dancing into the frame. In the 1800s, dancing was extremely popular subject to paint. All the art movements had their dancers.
Degas was able to make a living just selling ballerina paintings. Dancing kinda fell off in modern times. It is not a popular subject as it was in the 1800s, but it wasn’t forgotten all together.
