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Edgar Degas
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
Self Portrait Saluting - Edgar DegasEdgar Degas
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
- July 19, 1834; Paris, France
- September 27, 1917; Paris, France
- French
- Impressionism,Realism
- painting,sculpture,drawing
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,Michelangelo,Raphael,Titian,Edouard Manet,Eugene Delacroix
- Edward Hopper,Henri Gervex,Paul Gauguin,Mary Cassatt,Walter Sickert,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,Pierre-Auguste Renoir,Aaron Shikler,Richard Diebenkorn
- École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
- Edouard Manet,Mary Cassatt,Telemaco Signorini,Giovanni Boldini
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas
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One of the founders of the Impressionist movement, Edgar Degas was a prominent artist in the last half of the 19th century. Born to wealthy family, he began his schooling with a baccalaureate in literature in 1853. Due to the wishes of his father, who wanted him to go to law school, he enrolled at the University of Paris in 1853 to pursue a law d
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Vente de tableaux et peintures de Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was born in Paris into a wealthy bourgeois family in 1834. In 1847, his mother died when he was thirteen years old, and he began to visit Parisian museums. An avid visitor to the Louvre, he showed an exceptional aptitude for drawing by copying artists such as Rembrandt. He was particularly attracted to the Italian Renaissance masters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. In the spirit of his father's wishes, Degas enrolled in the Faculty of Law, where his law studies began but were not completed.
Living off the family fortune and not seeking financial gain for his art, he studied painting in 1855 in the studio of Louis Lamothe, a pupil of Ingres. The artistic legacy of Ingres fascinated Degas and inspired him throughout his life. Considered an impressionist, Degas claimed to be a realist. However, he participated in several Impressionist exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. In the early 1870s, Degas suffered from progressive blindness. Blinded by sunlight, he painted almost exclusively interior scenes with artificial ligh
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The Scary Truth Behind Degas's Ballet Paintings
Known for his whimsical Impressionist portrayals of ballet dancers, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas is a household name. The whirs of softly colored tutus and strokes of pink to flush each figure’s cheeks evoke a sense of joyful voyeurism, as if each viewer of the painting was sitting in the auditoriums depicted. Behind the glitz, glamor and youthful innocence, however, lies a darker truth. With Artsper, dive into the scary story behind the iconic Degas ballet paintings.
Some history
It’s important to view Edgar Degas’s ballet paintings in the context of the French social scene at the time of their painting. Picture it: it’s the 1870s in Paris, the Belle Époque. It’s a time of peace, prosperity and great economic growth following the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Shopping centers are opening across the city as fashion, art and culture become synonymous with Paris. The construction of the famed Parisian opera house, the Palais Garnier, was just completed and dancers are ready to take the stage. Impress
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