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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.
134 Questions
Why are the young girls in Degas's Dance Class in a moment of great stress?
They are preparing for their dance examination
When did Mary cassatt meet Edgar degas?
They met in Paris in 1877. Cassatt was familiar with Degas' work from seeing his pastels in exhibitions and galleries. Degas became aware of Cassat's work from seeing her paintings in the Paris Salon, and looked her up. He subsequently invited her to exihibit with the Impressionist group.
What is the story behind the two ballet dancers by Edgar Degas?
Degas painted a lot of ballet dancers, because he liked to study the human body in action.
What is special about Degas paintings?
Degas' paintings are held in high esteem for their beauty and the amount of skill involved with completing them. His images of ballerinas are particularly well regarded.
Edgar Degas' 'Little Dancer' depicts a young ballerina wearing which type of uniform?
She is wearing a leotard, a tutu, and a silk ribbon (in her hair).
Why did Edgar Degas wanted his work to be called Realism not Impressionism?
Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.
Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. The Impressionists painted the realities of the world around them using bright, "dazzling" colors, concentrating primarily on the effects of light, and hoping to infuse their scenes with immediacy.
Technically, Degas differs from the Impressionists in that he "never adopted the Impressionist color fleck", and he continually belittled their practice of painting en plein air. "He was often as anti-impressionist as the critics who reviewed the shows", as Degas himself explained, "no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and of the study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament, I know nothing."
What were Celestine Musson De Gas and Augustin De Gas's children's names?
In "Degas" by Ian Dunlop pg 15 says ".. a series of births- seven in fourteen years. Five children survived: Edgar, born in 1834, Archelle, born in 1838, Terese, born in 1840, Marguerite, born in 1842, and Rene, born in 1845."
