Matisse Painting his famous work "The Dance."

Matisse Painting his famous work "The Dance."

Key West is an amazing, creative, artistic community that funds it's Art. Here is a statue of Henry Matisse Painting his work, "The Dance," and, a sculptural artist took his painting and created a large than life sculptural work, adding his own humor of a teenage boy laying on his back under the dancing nudes. Klassic! Here is a travellers description in his blog, coming upon this scene on his trip to Key West.
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Approaching the building you can't help but notice there are five large nudes dancing in a circle around a man lying on the ground. The large nudes are a bronze sculpture called "The Daydream" reportedly by sculpture Mortimer Blake, and serves as a tribute to Henry Matisse's 1909 painting "La Danse." Upon closer look the man lying on the ground between the dancers is also a sculpture of a man enjoying the dance, by artist Seward Johnson. The two artists are said to have met in New York and each contributed to this piece. The more I looked around the more I saw life like statues intermingled with the off loading tourists who stopped to look at the various works of art. The artist Johnson has at least ten other "Man in the Street" lifelike statues in and around the museum. There were two people looking through binoculars from the porch, a man sweeping the sidewalk with a cigarette butt in his mouth and even Henri Matisse standing next to his easel composing his famous painting "The Dance".