The motif of a dancer with her leg propped up on a practice bar appears as early as the mid-1870’s and continues to around 1900. #EdgarDegas
Classe de danse
Œuvre du peintre 🇫🇷 Edgar Degas
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Koya Abe: Study of Liquor. (Topology of Art Chapter 7), 2012. Archival inkjet print. www.koyaabe.com
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5 March is ABSINTHE DAY :
“L’Absinthe” in Storyteller Poetry Review (Super-Sized Series: Ekphrastic Poems Part 2, 18 October 2024)
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Safe Journeys!
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🖼️ A Rovigo una mostra sul rapporto tra Zandomeneghi e Degas, a Palazzo Roverella.
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Forse sarà un po' la classica mostra blockbuster, che potrebbe essere fatta ovunque, ma anche l'occasione di vedere d vivo alcune opere e poi in caso approfondire in autonomia.
Devo dire però che spesso […]
バレエ絵の画家エドガー・ドガ
Ballet Dancers by Edgar Degas
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Portrait of Lorenzo Pagans, spanish tenor, and Auguste Degas, the artist's father (1869)
Miss La La
Born in 1858 in Szczecin, Poland (then Germany) to a White German mother + a Black father, Olga Brown was an aerialist # muse to Edgar Degas featured in his painting
'Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando'.
#misslala #edgardegas #aerialist #circusperformer #misslalaatthecirquefernando
Working on a small but exciting filming project. #hotreds #colourtemperature #EdgarDegas
La classe de danse, 1874 -
Edgar Degas (1834-1917), peintre et dessinateur français, proche de l’impressionnisme. Il est célèbre pour ses scènes de danse, de théâtre et de la vie moderne, alliant composition rigoureuse, mouvement et observation du quotidien.
#peinture
#Impressionnisme
#EdgarDegas
Art is not what you see,
but what you make others see.
– Edgar Degas
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Created in a period when Degas was increasingly preoccupied with memory, observation and the changing role of art in a rapidly modernising society, the work shows how his influence stretched beyond Impressionism toward a more introspective, psychologically aware modernity. #EdgarDegas
Claude Monet, 'The Olive Tree Wood in the Moreno Garden', 1884.
Edgar Degas, 'Olive Trees against a Mountainous Background', 1890-92.
William Merritt Chase, 'The Olive Grove', 1910.
John Singer Sargent, 'The Olive Grove', 1910.
#OliveHarvestDiaries
#ClaudMonet
#EdgarDegas
#WilliamMerrittChase
#JohnSingerSargent
Edgar Degas - Mélancolie (1874)
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Edgar Degas - La Répétition au foyer de la danse (1871)
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ICYMI: The Artist's Danny Huston on Becoming Edgar Degas
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black and white shaded pencil drawing of five ballerinas peaking around a corner. drawn from a vintage photo, of backstage ballerinas at the conservatoire de paris in 1948.
black and white vintage photo, of five backstage ballerinas peaking around a corner at the conservatoire de paris in 1948.
(2013) “muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.” -edgar degas. reference photo is from conservatoire de paris - ballerinas backstage at the paris conservatory 1948. #krackedmeggs #artsky #shadedpencil #ballerinas #edgardegas #vintagephotography #conservatoiredeparis #quotes
The subject enabled him to study the movement of the human form and the contortions of the body. #EdgarDegas
Le Tub, 1886 - Edgar Degas (1834-1917), peintre, graveur, sculpteur, photographe naturaliste et impressionniste.
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"Art is Not What You See, But What You Make Others See." – Edgar Degas
Mantra:
I create to inspire and evoke emotion. My art speaks beyond the canvas.
#EdgarDegas #artistmantra 👁️🎨
"Art is Not What You See, But What You Make Others See." – Edgar Degas
Mantra:
I create to inspire and evoke emotion. My art speaks beyond the canvas.
#EdgarDegas #artistmantra 👁️🎨
French artist Edgar Degas, captivated by the ephemeral qualities of movement, used pastel to explore immediacy and intimacy. Here, line and smudge create both structure and atmosphere, suggesting not photographic precision but the fleeting sensation of dance. The focus on the dancers’ backs rather than their faces highlights gesture over personality, echoing Degas’s fascination with “the body in its natural state of effort.” His ballet works of over 1,500 drawings, paintings, and sculptures were less portraits than studies of rhythm, repetition, and the grueling discipline behind the art form. He once remarked, “People call me the painter of dancers; it has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement.” Two ballerinas stand side by side beneath a branching tree, their long brown hair tied in trailing braids that fall down the backs of their pale pink tutus. The pastel’s soft textures capture the gauzy fabric of the skirts, scattered with delicate floral details, as their arms stretch upward in mirrored arcs, suggesting a moment of poised practice. Their bodies are turned away from us, angled so that only the curve of cheek, shoulder, and arm are visible. The figures are shown in mid-motion: one with her left arm lifted higher, the other echoing the gesture just a beat behind. Their skin is rendered in light tones that glow against the muted gray floor and the cool teal sky, a contrast that emphasizes the physicality of dance. The earthy tree trunk at left and horizon of green fields beyond lend a surprising outdoor backdrop, unusual in Degas’s ballet scenes, which more often unfolded in rehearsal studios or stage wings. Painted late in his career, this pastel reveals a softer palette and more contemplative mood than his earlier, bustling stage depictions. The outdoor setting dissolves the barrier between performance and nature, suggesting a universal harmony of art, body, and landscape.
“Danseuses sous un arbre” aka “Danseuses roses” (Two Dancers in Pink) by Edgar Degas (French) – Pastel on paper / c. 1895 – Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, California) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #EdgarDegas #Degas #Pastel #NortonSimonMuseum #BlueskyArt #arte #Ballerina #dancers #FrenchArt
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Edgar Degas 🇫🇷👨🏻🎨
fallece #27Septiembre de 1917🙏🏻
Fundador del impresionismo
Su obra captura la vida cotidiana y el movimiento, con sus icónicas bailarinas
Al morir, ¡6 de sus cuadros se subastaron por 1.9M de francos
#FelizSábado
#Impresionismo #Degas #EdgardeGas #OtrebordmXCultura
Tal día como hoy de 1917 moría el pintor Hilaire-Germain-Edgar de Gas, más conocido como Edgar Degas, autor de obras célebres como "La clase de ballet"
#laclasedeballet #edgardegas #pintura #historiadelarte #historiacontemporánea #historiae
" #Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
✒ #EdgarDegas, French Impressionist painter, #DOTD 27 September 1917. #Painting