Considered eccentric, quite daring, bordering on the bizarre by contemporary critics ...
Throughout his life, Degas “figured things out” by constantly reinventing himself and experimenting with form and technique.
There was always room for improvement and a desire to fine-tune or rip up and start again.
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La Place de la
Concorde
Place de la Concorde
1876
The Hermitage, St.
Petersburg
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Dans un café, L'absinthe
Absinthe Drinkers
1876
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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Degas: Une vision moderne de la réalité
Portraits d’une société
Degas: A modern vision of reality
Portraits of a society
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56. La constante recherche de perfection et la complexité de l’un des artistes français les plus influents et
inventifs de la fin du XIXe siècle ...
Artiste peintre et sculpteur reconnu comme l’un des membres fondateurs du groupe des Impressionnistes,
Edgar Degas est renommé pour ses prouesses techniques et stylistiques, ainsi que pour ses portraits
mélancoliques et vivants. En 1862, il réalisa son premier tableau moderne « La Famille Bellelli » (Paris, musée
d’Orsay), d’une fermeté monumentale.
Degas fut l’un de ceux qui renouvelèrent le plus profondément la thématique de la peinture et fondèrent une
vision véritablement moderne de la réalité.
57. Considered eccentric, quite daring, bordering on the bizarre by contemporary critics ...
Throughout his life, Degas “figured things out” by constantly reinventing himself and experimenting with form
and technique.
Early in his career, he immersed himself in historical painting, then moved on to depicting scenes of
contemporary Parisian society. Later, he became famous as “the painter of dancers”.
At every stage, and with every composition, Degas spent time and effort revising and reworking, often
producing multiple iterations of a theme, a subject, or even an individual pose. There was always room for
improvement and a desire to fine-tune or rip up and start again.
58. “Art is not a matter of what you see, but what you make other people see.” Edgar Degas
"L'art, n'est pas une question de ce que vous voyez, mais de ce que vous faites voir aux autres" Edgar Degas