Why Art Is Important

If you are not an appreciator of art, perhaps this photo will change your mind. If this doesn’t do it, nothing will!

Dance on!

NOTE: I found this photo on a radio station’s website. I’d like to know the origin of the photo, but this website offers information about the painting itself:

It’s Irish Painter John Lavery’s 1911 painting portrait of Anna Pavlova that the little girl is dancing in front of. The oil painting is now housed in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. The National Gallery of Australia tells us:

The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) was the most celebrated classical dancer of her time, admired for the poetic quality of her movement. She made her debut as soloist with the Imperial Russian Ballet in 1899, but gained fame when she danced with Nijinsky in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909.

The Observercritic wrote on 16 April 1911: ‘Mr. Lavery’s portrait of the Russian dancer, Anna Pavlova, caught in a moment of graceful, weightless movement … Her miraculous, feather-like flight, which seems to defy the law of gravitation.’

John Lavery was born in Ireland in 1856 and lived in Scotland c.1875-79, England and France 1879-85, Scotland 1885-96, England 1896-1939, with regular visits to North Africa, Ireland from 1939. He died in County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1941.

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