Tarantella

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Museum of Art (Lodz, Poland).

Prampolini maintained close contact with several groups of European avant-garde artists, including Polish artists in the city of Lodz, united around Vladislav Strzheminsky, to whom he gifted his painting as a sign of friendship and respect. This canvas dedicated to Italian folk dance in a fast, lively pace, demonstrates the author’s interest in dynamism and simultaneity of movement. On Prampolini’s canvas, the dancers break up into a mosaic of colourful geometric shapes, creating a fast rhythm and tangible vibration. This is a vivid example of a futuristic work, in which two types of art – dance and painting – become one, the embodiment of movement and expression.