French painter of ballet scenes from red

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Degas was one of the most radical, experimental artists of his day, fearlessly pushing beyond accepted boundaries in both subject and technique, and embracing the technological discoveries of the exciting age in which he lived. Degas was famous for the terse economy of his observations, and his own words offer few clues to his obsession with the dance.

The dealer Ambroise Vollard recalled the artist as an old man remarking: "They call me the painter of dancers. For Degas, the moving figure was the most compelling challenge and in the dance he found his ideal subject. It explores his fascination with movement, expressed through the dance, in the broader context of the technical experiments of his day, particularly photography and early film.

Photography, which had emerged aroundhad, by the s, become all the rage. Calling cards bearing little photographs, called cartes de visite, were immensely popular. Anyone with the slightest social pretensions had to have one, and for the stars of the world of entertainment, ballet and opera, they were an effective publicity tool. Photographs, from the beginning, were closely bound up with art.

Dancer Posing for a Photographon loan from the Pushkin Museum, was the title Degas gave to his luminous painting of a dancer set against a cool, blue Paris roof-scape seen through the studio window — a clear indication of his familiarity with the photographic world. From the moment Degas took up dance subjects aroundhis work intersects with photography.

In some of his early dance paintings we find him emulating, and perhaps even mocking, the conventions of the carte de visitealthough more often than not Degas was ahead of the game and able to capture the sense of dancers moving on stage, which at the time was beyond the capacity of the camera. The pose of the principal dancer in Two Dancers on the Stagec.

Many of the early dance class and rehearsal scenes, such as The Rehearsal c. The dancers are arranged in a loose, connected line around the room and the teacher. Degas would take artistic liberties with his subjects, sometimes embellishing the costume and setting. He used oils and built up layers of pigment on the canvas. Degas often explored a single theme across many works.

Degas painted the first ballet scene inand he went on to paint an estimated 1, 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.

French painter of ballet scenes from red

He would make notes of exactly how the ribbon was tied or how the skirt was falling from the body. He preferred the rehearsal studio, not the actual finalized performances because he liked the little events that occurred in the background. Degas was fascinated with dancers on stage and behind the scenes, seeing the contrast between these spaces as a way to distinguish between real and artificial experiences.

The relationship between Degas and Perrot is unknown. In the last phase of his career, Perrot privately coached principal ballerinas as depicted in The Ballet Class. Degas did not record dates on his paintings between and