Swaying Dancer Dancer in Green Edgar Degas Spielkarten

Swaying Dancer (Dancer in Green) by Edgar Degas, pastel and gouache on paper 1877-1879, is a painting of a young ballerina viewed from the front, side stage, performing a complex move standing on leg with arms extended. In the foreground of the tall, vertikale Zusammensetzung, the legs and tutu of another dancer are cropped as in a photograph. "Hinter dem Rad": Line of dancers in orange Kostüme await to perform. Degas uses his knowledge of movement, sense of realism, and precise classical drawing to construct an elaborate, kinetic zusammensetzung that fäna fleeting time and artistic movement. Degas deeply identifier ed and empathized with the work and long hours of practice of dancers, who were the subjet of nearly half of his art. Edgar Degas (Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, 1834 - 1917) was a French painter, draftsman, Bildhauer, Printmaker, a founder of the school of Beeinonism und a classical painter of dancers and scenes from modern life. Degas began to paint early in life, and after meeting the French classicist J.A.D. Ingres, Degas studied drawing in the manner of Ingres at the School of Beaux-Arts under Louis Lamothe. Degas lived for 3 years in Italy, where he made many kopien after michelangelo and the masters of the Italian Renaissance. Establishing his Paris studio, the artist exhibited as a history painter but began to turn to subject matter from contemporary life, under the impact of his friend Edouard Manet. Disenfranchised from the Official Paris Salon, Degas joined ranks with the independent Beeinonist group and exhibited at their first show in 1874, though his classical approach, lack of spontaneity, and disdain of air easel painting left him little in common with much group. Degas painted many portraits with profound psychological insight, many scenes from contemporary life and gattung paintings, and devoted half of his life's work to colorful pictures of ballet dancers and classical female figures figures. Degas' bold experiments in color which crossed boundaries between Realism, Beeinonism, and Modern painting, his original compositional methods, and his painstaking, calculated classical drawing combined with the artist's cantankerous rejection of rigid rules, combined to create of the original and beland ed body of works in the history of art