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Degas is the painter of dancers because of the large number of works he devoted to this subject during the period 1860–1890. [1]The influence of the Japanese prints by Hokusai and Utamaro allowed Degas, in a phenomenon linked as a whole to the impressionist movement, to free one of the last barriers of academic painting, the vision of the object.
Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. [3] Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist, [4] and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did.
Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers alone. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to think of himself as a realist. Singer with a Glove has been in the Fogg Museum collection since 1951. The Fogg Museum, which is ...
The Collector of Prints is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas. [1] [2] The painting, which was produced in 1866, depicts an unknown male subject sitting down, pausing while browsing through a portfolio of prints and meeting the viewer's gaze. [1]
After Auguste de Gas died in 1874, his son took up the subject again. In an 1882 double portrait of Pagans and Degas' father (private collection), Pagans is seen singing with a music book in his hand. Here, Degas' father sits as a peripheral figure in the background. There is also a pastel sketch of this painting (private collection).
Degas painted the first ballet scene in 1866, and he went on to paint an estimated 1,500 works on the subject. According to the writer Susan Meyer, Degas felt sympathy for dancers who had to repeat and repeat until they reached absolute perfection. He was curious about movement, music, French society, and the costumes of ballerinas.
The Ballet Class (Degas, Musée d'Orsay) Before the Race; C. The Collector of Prints (Degas) A Cotton Office in New Orleans; D. The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan ...
Les Choristes ("The Chorus" [1] or "The Chorus Singers" [2]) is an 1877 pastel on monotype by French artist Edgar Degas.Part of a series of similar works depicting daily public entertainment at the time, it shows a group of singers performing a scene from the opera Don Giovanni, the only work by Degas depicting an operatic performance without dancers.