Sculpture danseuse edgar degas biography
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Edgar Degas
French Impressionist artist (1834–1917)
"Degas" redirects here. For other uses, see Degas (disambiguation).
Edgar Degas | |
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Self-portrait (Degas Saluant), 1863 | |
| Born | Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (1834-07-19)19 July 1834 Paris, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 27 September 1917(1917-09-27) (aged 83) Paris, France |
| Known for | Painting, sculpture, drawing |
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| Movement | Impressionism |
Edgar Degas (, ;[1][2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French:[ilɛːʁʒɛʁmɛ̃ɛdɡaʁdəɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a FrenchImpressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Degas also produced bronzesculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers.[3] Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a r
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Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
Sculpture bygd Edgar Degas
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (French: La Petite Danseuse dem Quatorze Ans) is a sculpture begun c. 1880 by Edgar Degas of a young lärling of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem.
Description
[edit]The sculpture is two-thirds life size[2] and was originally sculpted in wax, an unusual choice of medium for the time.[3] The sculpture exhibited in 1881 was dressed in a real bodice, tutu and ballet slippers and a wig of human hair. All but the hair ribbon and tutu were coated in wax.
There are at least 28 bronze casts of this sculpture that appear in museums and galleries around the world today. After Degas' death his family hired a famous founding company, Hébrard, to make these replicas.[4] The tutus worn by the bronzes vary from museum to museum.[5]
The exact relationship between Marie van Goethem and Edgar Degas is a matter of
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Edgar Degas Biography In Details
During his life, public reception of Degas' work ranged from admiration to contempt. As a promising artist in the conventional mode, and in the several years following 1860, Degas had a number of paintings accepted in the Salon. These works received praise from Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and the critic, Castagnary.
Degas soon joined forces with the Impressionists, however, and rejected the rigid rules, judgements, and elitism of the Salon—just as the Salon and general public initially rejected the experimentalism of the Impressionists.
Degas's work was controversial, but was generally admired for its draftsmanship. The suite of nudes Degas exhibited in the eighth Impressionist Exhibition in 1886 produced "the most concentrated body of critical writing on the artist during his lifetime. ... The overall reaction was positiv and laudatory." His La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, or Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, was