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Author : Susan DeLand
Publisher : Benna Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1944038140
A concise overview of the life of the French painter Edgar Degas.
Author : Denys Sutton
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015000017948
Contains reproductions of the artist's work, extracts from his correspondence, and a study of the artist's personality and work.
Author : Alice Michel
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701553
There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir published by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into English, the text’s original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artist’s death, has been treated as an important account of the master sculptor at work. We know that Alice was writing under a pseudonym, but who the real person behind this account was remains a mystery—to this day nothing is known about her. Yet, the descriptions seem too accurate to be ignored, the anecdotes too spot-on to discount; even the dialogue captures the artist’s tone and mannerisms. What is found in these pages is at times a woman’s flirtatious recollection of a bizarre “artistic type” and at others a moving attempt to connect with a great, often tragic man. The descriptions are limpid, unburdened; the dialogue is lively and intimate, not unlike reading the very best kind of gossip, with world-historical significance. Here in these dusty studios, Degas is alive, running hands over clay, complaining about his eyes, denigrating the other artists around him, and whispering salaciously to his model. And during his mood swings, we see reflected the model’s innocence and confusion, her pain at being misunderstood and finally rejected. It is an intimate portrait of a moment in a great artist’s life, a sort of Bildungsroman in which his model (whoever she may be) does not emerge unscathed.
Author : CRAIG. BOUTLAND
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1538277018
Some of Degas's most well-known artwork depicts things he loved: the ballet and horse racing. But, he considered himself an artist who painted real life. Today, he's often categorized as an Impressionist, though that's not a designation Degas appreciated. In this captivating biography, readers are introduced to Degas's life, his painting technique, and some of the his most famous works, such as Blue Dancers and Racehorses at Longchamp. Age-appropriate attention to the details of the artwork teach readers how to look closely at a painting and point out Degas's uniqueness. A concluding activity shows them how to make their own Degas-inspired work!
Author : Nathalia Brodskaya,Edgar Degas
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783102860
Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist’s circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings. Degas did not attend Gleyre’s studio; most likely he first met the future impressionists at the Café Guerbois. He started his apprenticeship in 1853 at the studio of Louis-Ernest Barrias and, beginning in 1854, studied under Louis Lamothe, who revered Ingres above all others, and transmitted his adoration for this master to Edgar Degas. Starting in 1854 Degas travelled frequently to Italy: first to Naples, where he made the acquaintance of his numerous cousins, and then to Rome and Florence, where he copied tirelessly from the Old Masters. His drawings and sketches already revealed very clear preferences: Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Mantegna, but also Benozzo Gozzoli, Ghirlandaio, Titian, Fra Angelico, Uccello, and Botticelli. During the 1860s and 1870s he became a painter of racecourses, horses and jockeys. His fabulous painter’s memory retained the particularities of movement of horses wherever he saw them. After his first rather complex compositions depicting racecourses, Degas learned the art of translating the nobility and elegance of horses, their nervous movements, and the formal beauty of their musculature. Around the middle of the 1860s Degas made yet another discovery. In 1866 he painted his first composition with ballet as a subject, Mademoiselle Fiocre dans le ballet de la Source (Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet ‘The Spring’) (New York, Brooklyn Museum). Degas had always been a devotee of the theatre, but from now on it would become more and more the focus of his art. Degas’ first painting devoted solely to the ballet was Le Foyer de la danse à l’Opéra de la rue Le Peletier (The Dancing Anteroom at the Opera on Rue Le Peletier) (Paris, Musée d’Orsay). In a carefully constructed composition, with groups of figures balancing one another to the left and the right, each ballet dancer is involved in her own activity, each one is moving in a separate manner from the others. Extended observation and an immense number of sketches were essential to executing such a task. This is why Degas moved from the theatre on to the rehearsal halls, where the dancers practised and took their lessons. This was how Degas arrived at the second sphere of that immediate, everyday life that was to interest him. The ballet would remain his passion until the end of his days.
Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617848438
Discusses the life of Edgar Degas and describes his unique style of art.
Author : Pierre Cabanne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002631278
Author : Alix Wood
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477754092
Edgar Degas was a French artist who rose to fame in the late 1800s. His paintings and sculptures of both horses and dancers are still known throughout the world today. Readers explore Degas’s life by taking an in-depth look at some of his most famous works of art. Facts about this artist and the techniques he employed are presented alongside historical images as well as images of Degas’s masterpieces. Sidebars provide additional information about the life and work of one of the founders of Impressionism.
Author : Bernd Growe,Edgar Degas
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 382281136X
An introduction to the life and work of nineteenth-century French artist Edgar Degas, discussing his cultural and historical importance, and including a chronology and over one hundred color illustrations with explanatory captions.
Author : Edgar Degas,Anne Newlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UVA:X001854983
Presents the life and paintings of Edgar Degas in a first person narrative drawn from letters, notebooks, and people's stories about the artist.
Author : Roy McMullen
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015018361124
Author : Norma Broude
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0847817512
Edgar Degas, long known for his formally innovative, "slice-of-life" views of nineteenth-century Parisian life, is today recognized as an artist whose commitment to recording the contemporary world led him to challenge conventional stereotypes in art and to confront many of the social tensions of his time. Norma Broude, Professor of Art History at The American University and a pioneer in the feminist reassessment of Degas's images, explores the French artist's unusual presentations of men as well as women, as both grappled with the challenges and uncertainties of shifting gender roles and life-styles in the modern world.
Author : Jayne Woodhouse
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0431092109
Provides a vivid picture of the lives and works of some of the world's greatest artists and their influence on the world of art.
Author : James Bolivar Manson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822016159741
