Edgar Degas

DEGAS’S ABSINTHE: ANALISYS AND CURIOUS FACTS Once someone asked me what’s beautiful and charming about Degas’s Absinthe. Actually, it’s a painting that doesn’t make you happy; rather, to me, has always had a subheading: “depression”. No, Degas’s Abisinthe is not beautiful, it’s amazing. It’s a painting depicting with photographic accuracy a scene that anyone who was […]

DEGAS’S MOST BEAUTIFUL WORKS YOU SHOULD KNOW AND WHERE TO ADMIRE THEM A post dedicated to Degas’s most beautiful works and where to find them. Degas was basically a solitary artist. He had a difficult character, he was introverted, and his life was completely devoted to art. He is famous for the dancers he depicted in […]

DEGAS’S DANCER: THE LITTLE DANCER OF FOURTEEN YEARS Degas’s dancer is beautiful and delicate but she has a sad story and every time I see her I can’t help thinking about what she had to go through. The statue, exhibited at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881, was found in Degas’s studio after his death in […]

DEGAS’S DANCERS AND HIS MOST FAMOUS PAINTING: THE BALLET CLASS Degas’s dancers are the subject to which the artist dedicated himself from the 1870s to his death in 1917. Dancers at work, in rehearsal or at rest were an endless source of inspiration for Edgar Degas who portrayed a remarkable variety of gestures and postures in […]