Edgar Degas
1834-1917
French Impressionist Painter and Sculptor
His Style Was Influenced by the following Painters - Manet, Jean Auguste Ingres, Monet, Renoir, and the Renaissance.
Education - Ecole des Beaux Art, Paris, France
Mediums - oil on canvas, pastel, drawing, bronze
Cause of Death - Degas had retinal eye disease and was nearly blind when he died of old age.
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Description of Edgar Degas Style
Edgar Degas felt that Parisian life should be recorded in a lively vibrant palette. He focused on ballet dancers, historical subjects, portraits of his family and friends and the joyous eccentricities of Parisian life. Degas's painting style, subject matter, and psychology of movement set him apart from the other Impressionists. He sought to capture the essence of the subject through effects created by using light and color in new and innovative ways. Degas never worked outside, preferring the indoor studio environment. He executed his masterpieces from live models with bold strokes and graceful applications of color. Over time his eye sight deteriorated to the point of near blindness. In the last years of his life he took to roaming the streets of Paris alone and friendless.
Edgar Degas Art Quotations
One must do the same subject over again
ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident,
not even movement. --- Edgar Degas
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
--- Edgar Degas
Make a drawing. Start all over again. Trace it. Start it and trace it
again. You must do over the same subject ten times, a hundred times. In
art nothing must appear accidental even a movement. --- Edgar Degas
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other
concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one
were watching through a keyhole. --- Edgar Degas
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good
things. --- Edgar Degas
It is a tremendous
responsibility to leave anything behind in bronze–that medium is for
eternity. --- Edgar Degas
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the
effect of light. --- Edgar Degas
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.--- Edgar
Degas
The true traveler never arrives. .--- Edgar Degas
Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see. --
Edgar Degas
I guess that I am happiest sitting on my old stool, off in the
shadows, sketching nubile young dancers. How I love to watch them frolic
and bounce, all legs and round, firm bottoms!---Edgar Degas
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. ---Edgar Degas
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of
reflection and the study of the great masters. ---Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you
do. ---Edgar Degas
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