Andante (Dancing Girls)
Josef Mario Korbel American
Andante is one of a series of dancing figures by Korbel, its title referring to the moderate pace of the figures’ rhythmic movement. The two dancers stand on tiptoe facing one another and touching with the fingers of their right hands. Whereas the drapery falling in deep and precise folds from the nudes’ bent left arms suggests the artist’s indebtedness to early classical Greek sculpture, the smooth surfaces and idealized bodies of the two young women parallel the simplified nudes of French sculptor Aristide Maillol.
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