Degas

by Brodskai︠a︡, N. V., (Natalʹi︠a︡ Valentinovna)

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Full title :Degas

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Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist's circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings. Degas did not attend Gleyre's studio; most likely he first met the future impressionists at the Café Guerbois. He started his apprenticeship in 1853 at the studio of Louis-Ernest Barrias and, beginning in 1854, studied under Louis Lamothe, who revered Ingres above all others, and transmitted his adoration for this master to Edgar Degas. Starting in 1854 Degas travelled frequently to Italy: first to Naples, where he made the acquaintance of his numerous cousins, and then to Rome and Florence, where he copied tirelessly from the Old Masters. His drawings and sketches already revealed very clear preferences: Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Mantegna, but also Benozzo Gozzoli, Ghirlandaio, Titian, Fra Angelico, Uccello, and Botticelli. During the 1860s and 1870s he became a painter of racecourses, horses and jockeys. His fabulous painter's memory retained the particularities of movement of horses wherever he saw them. After his first rather complex compositions depicting racecourses, Degas learned the art of translating the nobility and elegance of horses, their nervous movements, and the formal beauty of their musculature. Around the middle of the 1860s Degas made yet another discovery. In 1866 he painted his first composition with ballet as a subject, Mademoiselle Fiocre dans le ballet de la Source (Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet 'The Spring') (New York, Brooklyn Museum). Degas had always been a devotee of the theatre, but from now on it would become more and more the focus of his art. Degas' first painting devoted solely to the ballet was Le Foyer de la danse à l'Opéra de la rue Le Peletier (The Dancing Anteroom at the Opera on Rue Le Peletier) (Paris, Musée d'Orsay). In a carefully.

Constructed composition, with groups of figures balancing one another to the left and the right, each ballet dancer is involved in her own activity, each one is moving in a separate manner from the others. Extended observation and an immense number of sketches were essential to executing such a task. This is why Degas moved from the theatre on to the rehearsal halls, where the dancers practised and took their lessons. This was how Degas arrived at the second sphere of that immediate, everyday life that was to interest him. The ballet would remain his passion until the end of his days.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Parkstone International
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (82 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781780427454, 178042745X
oclc:on1193517796
LC Classification:ND553.D3 ǂb B76 2012eb
Dewey Decimal:759.4

1. Self-Portrait, circa 1863. -- 2. Edgar Degas, circa 1855/60. -- 3. Monsieur and Madame Edmondo Morbilli, circa 1865. -- 4. The Bellelli Family, 1858/67. -- 5. Place de la Concorde (Comte Lepic with his daughters), 1876. -- 6. Pouting, circa 1869/71. -- 7. The Ironer, circa 1880. -- 8. Interior, circa 1868/69. -- 9. Scene of War in the Middle Ages or The Misfortunes of the Town of Orléans, 1865. -- 10. Half-nude Woman, Lying on her Back, 1865. -- 11. Young Spartan Girls Challenging the Boys, circa 1860-62. -- 12. Young Spartan Girl, circa 1860. -- 13. At the Races, Gentlemen Jockeys, circa 1876/77.

14. Ballet (The Star), 1879-81. -- 15. The Rehearsal on Stage, 1874 . -- 16. Blue Dancers, circa 1893. -- 17. Mademoiselle Lala at the Cirque Fernando, 1879. -- 18. Orchestral Musicians. -- 19. Dancers in the Wings, 1878-80. -- 20. At the Milliner's, circa 1882-86. -- 21. In a Café, also called The Absinthe, 1875/76. -- 22. Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre on the Occasion of the Ballet "The Source", 1867/68. -- 23. Waiting, circa 1882. -- 24. Dancer Greeting with a Bunch of Flowers, circa 1877. -- 25. In the Salon, circa 1876/77. -- 26. Repose, circa 1876/77.

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