Original artwork description:

This series of my paintings on male ballet is a modest tribute to one of the greatest dancers in history, Rudolf Nureyev, the most recognized name in the world of Ballet.
Together with Margot Fonteyn, another important name in the history of the Ballet, they triumphed internationally as one of the most outstanding artistic duo "of all times and nations".
Both equally talented, sparkling, gracious, spellbinding and mesmerizingly beautiful. Both of them.

The Duo are depicted in front of the main curtain of the Royal Opera House in London, their "Home Stage"

Male Ballet Dancers
Ballet ... An Eternal Art of Beauty.
The exquisite magic of the ballet does not leave anyone indifferent.
For centuries in the fine arts, many artists enthusiastically work with the theme of ballet, trying to use all their skills to convey the beauty and expression of movement.
Amazing paintings and photographs of various artists, styles and trends tell about the everyday life of the great ballet, where under the light of the ramp there generously gives her skill to the audience an unearthly, airy Ballerina.
And it's natural - before and during the Balanchine era, the ballerina was queen bee of ballet’s realm. So it’s startling to find that the internationally celebrated ballerina Margot Fonteyn, reflecting in her book “The Magic of Dance” (1979) about the impact of her younger partner Rudolf Nureyev on ballet, announced, “The era of the ballerina is over.”
A good thing, too, she added: The ballerina had ruled the roost for far too long. There would still be ballerinas — but they would no longer reign supreme, as linchpins of ballet’s construction and its meanings.
In the 1960s, Nureyev and other male dancers began to realign the 19th-century classics, bestowing more dancing upon their own central male roles. Thus, gone is the mold were ballerina was its protagonist, and the male dancer was destined to live in her shadow - he started to speak his own, powerful and bright body language.

Materials used:

oil

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