Invitation to the Dance Print

Flamenco dancing is the epitome of exotic romanticism. This art form derives from a fusion of Gypsy culture with the Moorish and Sephardic cultures of Andalusia. As such it was the art form of the perpetual outsider in Christianized Spain. This popular subject has captured the imagination of many realist painters such as Sargent. C.S. Lewis compares coming to know God to entering into a dance. God is the Divine Family, eternally in a great joyful fellowship of perfect covenantal love and mutual deference, alive and dynamic rather than dead and static as in man-made religions. This love is from all eternity being expressed in what Lewis calls “The whole dance or drama or pattern of this three-Personal life…The only way we can experience true happiness and joy is by entering the dance of the three-personal life. The whole dance or drama or pattern of this three-Personal life is being played out in each one of us: or putting it the other way round, each of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we are made…” This painting is part of a larger series of paintings of the peoples of the world called Every Nation Under Heaven.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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