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Old 11-18-2006, 10:28 PM   #22
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Trying to get as good a look as possible I've split the painting into left and right side. This painting, by the way, is located at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Ma.

Enzie,

I can only hazard a guess ... The bright red color seems like a reasonable choice in this theme, but I too puzzle as to why he chose to split the red image on the edge of the canvas. Maybe he thought the shot of color was necessary and felt that if he'd brought it into the body of the composition it may have drawn attention away from the dancer. I suppose that whatever he decided to do, by definition, becomes the right thing to do.

I thought the guy with his head tilted back was passed out drunk, but then I read that he was just shouting an "olay!" of sorts. Either one works for me.
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