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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was a famous member of the impressionist group, even though his paintings are not always strictly impressionistic. Wanting to study and show the human body in action, he made many paintings of ballet dancers. Ask us about his life and work here.
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In Mary Cassatt Artist and Trailblazer which best describes Edgar Degas?
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Who was Achille Degas?
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Edgar Degas' brother. He was a cotton broker in New Orleans.
Edgar Dega is noted for painting horse racing and what?
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Ballet dancers. His work is swift and colorful. Very beautiful.
What is the balance in jockey's before the race by the artist edger degas?
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Asymmetrical
Who were Edgar Degas' contemporaries?
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He worked with the impressionists (Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Morisot, Cassatt), Manet, Suzanne Valadon.
Did Edgar Degas have any colleagues?
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If you mean assistants helping him in his studio, he usually did not. Colleagues in the sense of other artists he knew, there was the whole gang of impressionist painters that he belonged to.
How did Edgar Degas contribute to the world?
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By making charming paintings. Also by teaching graphic work to Suzanne Valadon and encouraging Mary Cassatt. Those were interesting painters, working in Paris.
Which French impressionist is famed for his painting of ballet dancers?
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Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas 19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917
What painting did Edgar Degas paint during the spring?
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He painted about 1200 paintings. About one fourth of them ought to have been painted in the spring.
For which United States city did Edgar Degas create a set of paintings that depicted the suffering of that city?
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New Orleans
Edgar Degas drew a grid over his study of a dancer in order to?
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In order to paint it enlarged.
*Degas drew a ggrid over it to make it easier to copy.
How many artists were there in 1879 besides Edgar Degas?
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There is no way of knowing how many artists there were in the world then or now.
Tens of thousands, anyway.
