Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas, 1834 to 1917, was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist. He was a superb draughtsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his renditions of dancers, racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation. Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot. The Impressionists painted the realities of the world around them using bright, "dazzling" colours, concentrating primarily on the effects of light, and hoping to infuse their scenes with immediacy. They wanted to express what they saw in that exact moment. Technically, Degas differs from the Impressionists in that he continually belittled their practice of painting en plein air. "He was often as anti-impressionist as the critics who reviewed the shows", according to art historian Carol Armstrong; as Degas himself explained, "no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and of the study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament, I know nothing." Nonetheless, he is described more accurately as an Impressionist than as a member of any other movement. His scenes of Parisian life, his off-center compositions, his experiments with color and form, and his friendship with several key Impressionist artists, most notably Mary Cassatt and Édouard Manet. all relate him intimately to the Impressionist movement
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'After the Bath, Seated Woman Drying Herself, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1885 £6.99
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'After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Back' by Edgar Degas in 1895 £6.99
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'Ballet Dancer with Arms Crossed, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1872 £6.99
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'Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper' by Edgar Degas in 1873 £6.99
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'Dancers at the Barre, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1900 £6.99
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'Dancers in the Wings (Danseuses dans la coulisse), detail' by Edgar Degas in 1877 £6.99
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'Dancers, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1884-86 £6.99
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'Deux danseuses jaunes et roses, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1898 £6.99
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'Drinking Absinthe in a Cafe' by Edgar Degas in 1876 £6.99
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'Examen de Danse (Dance Examination)' by Edgar Degas in 1880 £6.99
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'Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas' by Edgar Degas in 1871 £6.99
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'Mary Cassatt, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1880-84 £6.99
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'Portraits at the Stock Exchange, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1878-80 £6.99
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'Seated Nude' by Edgar Degas in 1895 £6.99
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'Seated Violin Player, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1872 £6.99
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'Self-portrait, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1857 £6.99
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'Swaying Dancer (Dancer in Green), detail' by Edgar Degas in 1877-79 £6.99
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'The Ballet Class, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1871 £6.99
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'The Bellelli Sisters (Giovanna and Giuliana Bellelli)' by Edgar Degas in 1865-66 £6.99
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'The Convalescent' by Edgar Degas in 1872-87 £6.99
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'The Orchestra at the Opera, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1870 £6.99
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'The Russian Dancer, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1895 £6.99
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'The Star, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1876-78 £6.99
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'Three Dancers in Red Costume, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1896 £6.99
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'Toilette after the Bath' by Edgar Degas in 1888-89 £6.99
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'Two Dancers, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1905 £6.99
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'Victoria Dubourg, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1868-69 £6.99
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'Visit to a Museum' by Edgar Degas in 1879-90 £6.99
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'Woman Ironing' by Edgar Degas in 1892-95 £6.99
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'Woman Ironing, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1876-87 £6.99
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'Woman Sponging Her Back, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1888-92 £6.99
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'Young Woman in Blue, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1874 £6.99
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'A Group of Dancers' by Edgar Degas in 1895 £6.99
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'After the Bath' by Edgar Degas in 1895 £6.99
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'After the Bath, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1895 £6.99
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'After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1885 £6.99
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'At the Races in the Countryside, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1869 £6.99
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'Ballet at the Paris Opéra, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1877 £6.99
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'Ballet Dancers Rehearsing' by Edgar Degas in 1877 £6.99
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'Ballet Rehearsal on Stage, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1874 £6.99
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'Before the Performance' by Edgar Degas in 1896 £6.99
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'Billiard Room at Ménil-Hubert' by Edgar Degas in 1892 £6.99
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'Copies of Cézanne's Bathers' by Edgar Degas in 1877 £6.99
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'Dancers, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1884-86 £6.99
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'Four Dancers, detail' by Edgar Degas in 1899 £6.99