Degas dancers

From Ordrupgaard, Edgar Degas, Seated Dancer With Hand on Her Ankle (1879), Pastel on paper

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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When Impressionism emerged in the 1870s, most painters were preoccupied with light and nature. Edgar Degas, however, was fascinated by movement and people—making ballerinas a perfect subject. Each ballerina painting, drawing, and sculpture by Degas showcases this interest.

The heavily impastoed surface suggests that Degas worked directly and extensively on this picture, building up passages of oil paint with brushes and his fingers. By mixing his colors with white to make them opaque, and by applying his pigments thickly and in several layers, he approximated the pastel technique that he had perfected in the 1880s

'A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy.' Edgar Degas Let's take a closer look at Edgar Degas' ballet dancers. It's a large body of work, containing around 1,500 paintings, sketches, pastels, and sculptures. Degas sums them up nicely in the above quote. I cover: Edgar Degas, Ballet at the Paris Opera,

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