{"id":6829,"date":"2015-10-21T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com\/?p=6829"},"modified":"2015-10-21T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:14:39","slug":"the-dancer-henri-gaudier-brzeska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/the-dancer-henri-gaudier-brzeska\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dancer was originally modelled by hand and cast in plaster by French artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska but it was not exhibited in Gaudier\u2019s lifetime. It is most likely a study made in his studio of the artist Nina Hamnett, who admired the freer and natural body movements of modern dancers such as Isadora Duncan. In her autobiography of 1932, Hamnett recalls modelling naked in Gaudier\u2019s studio for a series of carved marble torsos.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does Gaudier capture the graceful twisting and stepping down of the figure, he expresses a subtle sense of movement through the very sensuous modelling of the figure, with variations on its surface that catch the light as it passes across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dancer was originally modelled by hand and cast in plaster by French artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska but it was not exhibited in Gaudier\u2019s lifetime. It is most likely a study made in his studio of the artist Nina Hamnett, who admired the freer and natural body movements of modern dancers such as Isadora Duncan. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/the-dancer-henri-gaudier-brzeska\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dancer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}