Degas ballerina

Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris). Date: 1877. Medium: Mixed media on canvas. Dimensions: 29 3/4 x 32 in. (75.6 x 81.3 cm). Classificati...

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Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.

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Edgar Degas, Dancers in Blue,1890

Edgar Degas, Waiting (detail), ca. 1882 (x)

Edgar Degas \\ Edgar Degas was very experimental with his mediums in art, often drawing with chalk, painting with oil on canvas, and sketching dancers in pencil and charcoal. But Degas was most known for his pastel drawings, and was once called the “Pastel Master”.

Edgar Degas

Degas was nicknamed the “painter of dancers”. From 1860 onwards, he developed a fascination with dance, which was originally discovered at the Paris Opera, where he spent much time backstage. As a result of his interest, his paintings portrayed the dancers in private behind-the-scenes moments, as well as during their performances on stage. Take a look back over the love story between the artist and his tutu-clad muses.

Description This picture is a pure pastel, whose range of textures—from gleaming silk to airy tulle to powdery, gas-lit flesh—Degas seems to have achieved without wetting or mixing media. Two corps de ballet dancers, peculiarly anonymous in their matching costumes and poses, turn “upstage,” away from an imaginary audience beyond the picture plane. Although these women might at first seem caught unawares, like Degas’s many bathers, the elegant artifice of their movements and attire reminds us…

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1886 Self-portrait This is the second of three posts featuring the work of French artist Edgar Degas. Parts 1 and 2 feature his works related to the ballet, part 3 will feature other works. For biographical notes see part 1. I'm afraid I don't have all of the dates and titles for for the works in this post. 1898-99 The Blue Dancers 1898-99 Two Dancers 1899 Four Dancers 1900 Ballet Dancers in the Wings 1900 Dancers at the Bar 1907 Ballet Scene (Title unknown) A Group of Dancers Ballerina…

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