The piece titled "Dance" by Henri Matisse is a wonderful painting in the grand scheme of things, and uses primitive concepts to convey a ritualistic scene. I don't mean ritualistic as in satanic, just in that the individuals are going about an act carried down through their lineage.
This painting was a sister painting to "Music" also by Matisse, and hung together in the estate of Sergei Shchukin, who was a Russian businessmen and art collector, until the October Revolution of 1917.
It shows 5 red figures dancing, against the simple green landscape under a deep blue sky. It is supposed to symbolize feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism.
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