DEGAS

Ballet Rehearsal on Stage	Dancer adjusting her Slippers	Dancer on Stage	Dancer with a Fan	Dancer with Bouquet	Dancers in Blue
Dancers in Pink	Dancers practising at the Barre	Race Horses	The Dance Class	Woman combing her hair	Woman in the Tub

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Edgar Degas

July 19, 1834 - September 27, 1917

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Biography

Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. His early study of classical art prefaced a body of mature works which convincingly placed the human figure in contemporary environments. He is regarded as one of the founders of impressionism.

Degas began to paint seriously early in life; by eighteen he had turned a room in his home into an artist's studio, but he was expected to go to law school, as were most aristocratic young men. Degas, however, had other plans and left his formal education at age 20. He then studied drawing with Louis Lamothe, under whose guidance he flourished, following the style of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (Canaday 930-931). In 1855 Degas met Ingres (Benedek "Chronology.") and was advised by him to "draw lines, young man, many lines" (Canaday 931). In that same year, Degas received admission to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Benedek "Chronology."). The next year, Degas traveled to Italy, where he saw the paintings of Michelangelo, Raphael, and other artists of the Renaissance (Canaday 931-932).

Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. (Mannering 7). Technically Degas differed from the impressionists in that he "never adopted the Impressionist color fleck" (Hartt 365). and "disapproved of their work" (Mannering 7). Degas is, however, described more accurately as an impressionist than as a member of any other movement. Impressionism was a short, varied movement during the 1860s and 70s that grew, in part, out of realism and the ideas of two painters, Courbet and Corot. The movement used bright, "dazzling" colors, while still concentrating primarily on the effects of light (Hartt 357-358).

Today, Degas is thought of as "one of the founders of impressionism" (Mannering 6-7), his work is highly regarded, and his paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculpture (most of the latter were not intended for exhibition, and were only discovered after his death) are on prominent display in many museums.

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