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Mar 1, 2019 · 21 Facts About Edgar Degas. By Zoë Vanderweide. 1. Degas rejected the “Impressionist” label and preferred to be known as a “realist”. Even though he took a leading role in organizing the Impressionist Exhibitions and is considered one of the movement’s founders, Degas had a contentious relationship with his contemporaries.
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (better known simply as Edgar Degas) was born on 19 July 1834 in Paris. His parents were wealthy bourgeois who specialized in banking. Edgar's father, Auguste, was half Italian and half French while his mother, Célestine Musson, was an American Creole of French descent from Louisiana. Young Edgar studied at Paris' Lycée...
Degas had a complex character; even his artist friends seem to have sometimes found him exasperating, particularly as his famed wit could both charm and cut. The art historian V. Bouruet Aubertot gives the following summary of Degas' character: Degas was fortunate in that his family's wealth meant that, for most of his career, he did not have to ea...
In the 1860s, a group of young avant-garde artists hung about together in the cafés of Paris. They passionately discussed what should be the new direction of art, especially the Café Guerbois and others in the Batignolles area of Paris. This group included such future household names as Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), C...
Degas painted on many diverse subjects, but some themes appear again and again in his work. He was particularly interested in horses and so spent a good deal of time studying them at the fashionable racecourses of Paris. The colour of the circus, the bustle of café society, and the solemnity of the stock exchange also caught his eye. One subject ab...
Degas was represented in the impressionist show in the Hôtel du Grand Miroir in Brussels in 1885. It was from this time that the artist entered a new phase where he concentrated less on scenes of daily life in Paris and much more on aesthetic form in his work and capturing the form of the human body, typically as seen in dancers and bathers. A cele...
Edgar Degas, at the age of 83, died on 27 September 1917 in his apartment in Paris. He was buried in the cemetery of Montmartre. He had never married or had children, as he himself had once said: "There is love and there is art and we only have one heart" (Kear, 66). Degas had enjoyed a long career and earned more recognition than most other artist...
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Evidence of Degas’ classical education can be seen in his relatively static, friezelike early painting, Young Spartans Exercising (ca. 1860; National Gallery, London), done while he was still in his twenties. Yet despite the title, and the suggestion of classical drapery on some of the figures in the background, there is little that places the subject of this painting in ancient Greece.
Aug 19, 2024 · Degas' work often provoked strong reactions from critics and the public due to his unconventional subject matter and techniques Some viewed his depictions of women, particularly in private moments, as voyeuristic or even misogynistic, while others praised his honesty and psychological insight
Edgar Degas. Overview. Degas was born to an aristocratic family, unusually supportive of his desire to paint. As a young man he was greatly impressed by the disciplined style of neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who reportedly advised him to “Draw lines, young man, draw lines.”. Throughout his career Degas stressed the ...
His paintings of women in the bath or at their toilette constitute a major theme in his work. Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Femme sortant du bain, circa 1886-89. Pastel over monotype on paper laid down on board. 11⅜ x 15⅜ in (28.7 x 39 cm). Sold for £2,422,500 on 30 June 2021 at Christie’s in London.
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More than any other artist in the Impressionist group, Degas was fascinated by ideas and consciously based his work on them. "What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters," he once confessed, "of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament I know nothing." Yet his work has been understood very inadequately from that point of view. Publications on him, once dominated by ...
