#The Waltz

[arinewman7]

La Valse (The Waltz)

Sculpture by Camille Claudel

[argentrenard]

[thelastofthebookworms]

Favorite Sculpture 2

[gracie-bird]

In 1976, the Rose Ball's theme was “The Waltz” with the singer Mady Mesulé as the star of the evening. Arrival of the princely couple. © Photo Robert Oggero

[1five1two]

As soon as we entered I plunged into the giddy whirl of the waltz. That delightful exercise has always been dear to me; I know of nothing more beautiful, more worthy of a beautiful woman and a young man; all dances compared with the waltz are but insipid conventions or pretexts for insignificant converse. It is truly to possess a woman, in a certain sense, to hold her for a half hour in your arms, and to draw her on in the dance, palpitating in spite of herself, in such a way that it can not be positively asserted whether she is being protected or seduced. Some deliver themselves up to the pleasure with such modest voluptuousness, with such sweet and pure abandon, that one does not know whether he experiences desire or fear, and whether, if pressed to the heart, they would faint or break in pieces like the rose. Germany, where that dance was invented, is surely the land of love.

Alfred De Musset

[pammoruno]

Commissions for a friend.

[wickedburningstudioz]

I was having a night a while ago. Couldn't sleep. 3 AM and I'm thinking about loneliness and longing and then this sculpture. I didn't sleep until I had drawn most of it out. This sculpture is "The Waltz" by Camille Claudel. She was the mistress and student of Auguste Rodin who is another artist whose work has sometimes paralyzed me, forcing me to look and think and feel. Her story is almost unbearably sad and much is said about her relationship with Rodin, her subsequent destruction of her work and then her institutionalization. I think about what it must have been like for a woman that created something like this to spend the last 30 years of her life isolated. Kept. Alone.

[amystarrstuff]

the folly of @hellsitegenetics askers

[scurviesdisneyblog]

“Waltz of the Flowers” from Disney's Fantasia (1940) | Gifs credit x

[notherpuppet]

Let’s Dance

Part 5/12

Part 4 | Part 6

[ofallingstar]

Fantasia (1940)

[goosologist]

(How weird! To be noticed, and known!)

[fence-time]

The creator

[rithion]

nothing but a simple waltz

[anniilaugh]

”When we’re together, we have no weakness. No vulnerability. We perfect each other.”

aka @wellship 's ”20 Year Waltz” and their ”The God with no back” concept lives in my head rent free and forever loved💚