Ballet dancers by edgar degas biography
Ballet dancers by edgar degas biography summary
Edgar degas short biography...
&#;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, paintings, sketches, pastels, and sculptures. Degas sums them up nicely in the above quote. I cover:
A Study of Movement and Life
Degas spent most of his life painting dancers, but perhaps it was as a means of studying movement rather than an innate interest in ballet.
Ballet dancers by edgar degas biography
In his own words:
&#;People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.&#; Edgar Degas
I cannot think of a better demonstration of movement than ballet.
The dancers twist, turn, and pivot effortlessly through space. What a wonderfully impossible challenge to capture this on a flat surface. Especially given we artists don&#;t have the benefit of multiple frames in time like in film or even photog