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The River Seine Dancer

Acrylic paint on 3 sheets of 24" x 32" plexiglass. Date: May 2024.

The River Seine Dancer – Neo-Pointillist painting front view by Robert Shirk
The River Seine Dancer – side view showing layered plexiglass
The River Seine Dancer – Neo-Pointillist detail
Why Dots? – Watch the video about Neo-Pointillist technique
The River Seine Dancer – Detail of blue Neo-Pointillist dots against textured background
The River Seine Dancer – Close-up of blue and gold Neo-Pointillist dots
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Thumbnail of side view
Thumbnail of detail view
Thumbnail – Why Dots? video
Thumbnail of River Seine Dancer detail 2
Thumbnail of River Seine Dancer detail 3

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The Story Of This Painting.

A few months ago I planned on painting a portrait of Claude Monet. The background of that painting was going to be one of his paintings. Monet did many series that depicted the same scene at different seasons and times of day. I tried to replicate a few of the paintings in his series. I tried his Water Lilies, Rouen Cathedral, and finally I settled on a painting from his 1896/97 "Mornings on the Seine" series called "Arm of the Seine".

I decided not to use this background for the Monet portrait. Instead, I used as reference a dramatic image of a ballerina dancing with a sheet. I love the composition the dancer and Monet's background created.

Monet's Arm of the Seine, used as background reference
Monet's Arm Of The Seine.

Here are some of the 20 or so versions of Monet's "Mornings on the Seine" series.

Monet's Mornings on the Seine series

You can learn more about my journey to Pointillism here.

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