Degas dancers

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...

Degas was nicknamed the “painter of dancers”. From 1860 onwards, he developed a fascination with dance, which was originally discovered at the Paris Opera, where he spent much time backstage. As a result of his interest, his paintings portrayed the dancers in private behind-the-scenes moments, as well as during their performances on stage. Take a look back over the love story between the artist and his tutu-clad muses.

'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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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

I'd like to refer to this day in Paris as our "day of culture," not to suggest that the other days weren't incredible cultural experiences, but this particular day was packed with incredible, priceless artistic

07 June 1865 - unknown Marie Geneviève van Goethem (or Goetham or Goeuthen) was a French ballet student and dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, and the model for Edgar Degas's statue Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans). Marie was the daughter of a laundress and a tailor, who came to Paris in the early 1860s from Belgium. She was born in 1865 in the diverse 9th arrondissement of Paris.

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Around 1880 Degas's grays gave way to brilliant colors, ranging from red to russet, and muted tones were replaced by warm ones. This came with a change in style and technique, in which pastels became his dominant medium. Degas produced a series of colored pastel drawings of dancers including “The Blue Dance - The Blue Dancers, Degas Art