Degas Painter Of Ballerinas

Author : Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683354734

Get Book

Degas, Painter of Ballerinas by Susan Goldman Rubin Pdf

Through Edgar Degas’s beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his artwork, Degas captures every moment, from the relentless hours of practice to the glamour of appearing on stage, revealing a dancer’s journey from novice to prima ballerina. Observing young students, Degas drew their poses again and again, determined to achieve perfection. The book includes a brief biography of his entire life, endnotes, bibliography, where to see his paintings, and an index.

Author : Jill Devonyar,Richard Kendall
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1905711689

Get Book

Degas and the Ballet by Jill Devonyar,Richard Kendall Pdf

Edgar Degas (18341917) is best known for his luminous studies of dancers. Illustrated with drawings, pastels, paintings, prints and sculpture, as well as photographs taken by the artist and his contemporaries, and samples of film from the period, this text follows the development of Degas's ballet imagery.

Author : Edgar Degas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486141664

Get Book

Degas Drawings of Dancers by Edgar Degas Pdf

Forty-one full-page, six half-page drawings depict dancers on stage, in the classroom, and at rehearsals. Charming, spirited views of dancers pirouetting, executing grand battements and ports de bras, practicing at the barre, and more.

Author : Camille Laurens
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590519592

Get Book

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Camille Laurens Pdf

This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, shedding light on the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, or Copenhagen, but where is her grave? We know only her age, fourteen, and the work that she did—because it was already grueling work, at an age when children today are sent to school. In the 1880s, she danced as a “little rat” at the Paris Opera, and what is often a dream for young girls now wasn’t a dream for her. She was fired after several years of intense labor; the director had had enough of her repeated absences. She had been working another job, even two, because the few pennies the Opera paid weren’t enough to keep her and her family fed. She was a model, posing for painters or sculptors—among them Edgar Degas. Drawing on a wealth of historical material as well as her own love of ballet and personal experiences of loss, Camille Laurens presents a compelling, compassionate portrait of Marie van Goethem and the world she inhabited that shows the importance of those who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of art.

Author : Bernd Growe,Edgar Degas
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 382281136X

Get Book

Edgar Degas, 1834-1917 by Bernd Growe,Edgar Degas Pdf

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 : Kathryn Wagner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385343862

Get Book

Dancing for Degas by Kathryn Wagner Pdf

In the City of Lights, at the dawn of a new age, begins an unforgettable story of great love, great art—and the most painful choices of the heart. With this fresh and vibrantly imagined portrait of the Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, readers are transported through the eyes of a young Parisian ballerina to an era of light and movement. An ambitious and enterprising farm girl, Alexandrie joins the prestigious Paris Opera ballet with hopes of securing not only her place in society but her family’s financial future. Her plan is soon derailed, however, when she falls in love with the enigmatic artist whose paintings of the offstage lives of the ballerinas scandalized society and revolutionized the art world. As Alexandrie is drawn deeper into Degas’s art and Paris’s secrets, will she risk everything for her dreams of love and of becoming the ballet’s star dancer?

Author : Eva Montanari
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0810938782

Get Book

Chasing Degas by Eva Montanari Pdf

Monsieur Degas likes to paint the students while they practice in ballet class. But one day he mistakenly leaves his paints in the dance studio and instead takes a young ballerina's bag, which contains her new tutu. And so the ballerina begins a great chase to find Degas before her recital. Full color.

Author : Richard Kendall,Edgar Degas
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040705454

Get Book

Degas Dancers by Richard Kendall,Edgar Degas Pdf

He addressed the routine of the practice room, the drabness of backstage life, the moment of transformation as performers left or entered the stage, and the squalid, amorous adventures between the ballerinas and the black-suited, top-hatted, and often sinister gentlemen who sought their favors after a performance.

Author : Alix Wood
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477754108

Get Book

Edgar Degas by Alix Wood Pdf

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 : Edgar Degas
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0811802450

Get Book

Degas' Dancers by Edgar Degas Pdf

Author : Jill Devonyar,Edgar Degas,Richard Kendall,Detroit Institute of Arts,Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055828936

Get Book

Degas and the Dance by Jill Devonyar,Edgar Degas,Richard Kendall,Detroit Institute of Arts,Philadelphia Museum of Art Pdf

Seeks to illuminate the themes present in the artist's works, presenting new material about Degas's highly informed relationship with the ballet of the nineteenth century.

Author : George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas,Xavier Rey,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nude in art
ISBN : 0500093628

Get Book

Degas and the Nude by George T. M. Shackelford,Edgar Degas,Xavier Rey,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pdf

The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas and the Nude is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.

Author : Laurence Anholt
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184780814X

Get Book

Degas and the Little Dancer by Laurence Anholt Pdf

Marie dreams of becoming the most famous ballerina in the world. When she joins the ballet school in Paris, she notices a fierce man sitting at the side, sketching the dancers. The man is the painter, Edgar Degas, and his clay model of Marie does indeed make her the most famous dancer of all.

Author : Jp Calosse
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781644618233

Get Book

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) by Jp Calosse Pdf

Degas was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. His career was long and his style, unlike that of most famous artists who worked into their old age, never ceased developing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism and is especially identified with the subject of dance (over half of his works depict dancers such as The Dance Class or the sculpture Little Ballet Dancer). These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his less common themes of horse racing and female nudes (After the Bath). His portraits are considered to be among the finest in the history of art. His work was strongly influenced by Ingres and Delacroix combining the expressive qualities of Ingres with the colour of Delacroix.

Author : Richard Kendall,Timothy J. Standring,Jill DeVonyar,Victoria Avery,Jo Dillon,Anna Gruetzner Robins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300228236

Get Book

Degas by Richard Kendall,Timothy J. Standring,Jill DeVonyar,Victoria Avery,Jo Dillon,Anna Gruetzner Robins Pdf

A beautiful celebration of six decades of work by Edgar Degas, published in the centennial year of the artist's death Edgar Degas's (1834-1917) relentless experimentation with technical procedures is a hallmark of his lifelong desire to learn. The numerous iterations of compositions and poses suggest an intense self-discipline, as well as a refusal to accept any creative solution as definitive or finite. Published in the centenary year of the artist's death, this book presents an exceptional array of Degas's work, including paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes, counter proofs, and sculpture, with approximately sixty key works from private and public collections in Europe and the United States, some of them published here for the first time. Shown together, the impressive works represent well over half a century of innovation and artistic production. Essays by leading Degas scholars and conservation scientists explore his practice and recurring themes of the human figure and landscape. The book opens with a study of Degas's debt to the Old Masters, and it concludes with a consideration of his artistic legacy and his influence on leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Ryan Gander, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, R. B. Kitaj, Pablo Picasso, and Walter Sickert. Published in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Exhibition Schedule: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (10/3/17-1/14/18) Denver Art Museum (02/18/18-05/20/18)