#ArtSaturday Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, 1834-1917, French painter, sculptor, and print-maker
Self-Portrait, 1855 pic.twitter.com/glTcnMH2zI
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Degas, the oldest of five children, was born in Paris, France, into a somewhat wealthy family.Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon, 1871 pic.twitter.com/nebfoRE5mh
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Degas' mother was a Creole from New Orleans, Louisiana, and his father was a banker.Woman Seated Beside a Vase of Flowers, Madame Valpinçon, 1865 pic.twitter.com/IqkBNGWTSz
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Degas painted from an early age, and after he graduated from the Lycée with a literature degree at age 18, he transformed his bedroom into an art studio.The Bellilli Family, 1865-67 pic.twitter.com/1ZatHvrfTE
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Degas' father expected Edgar to become a lawyer, so he enrolled in law school but didn't study.The Interior, also known as The Rape, 1868 pic.twitter.com/GT70O0WT1N
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1865: Degas lived in Italy with his aunt's family for three years, where he copied works by Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael.Self-Portrait, 1863 pic.twitter.com/63aEPVDDE7
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1865: Degas returned to France and moved into a large studio in Paris where he began painting original work.Yellow Dancers in the Wings, 1871 pic.twitter.com/SvZLTvteWb
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Initially, Degas had intended to paint historical work, so his early painting had classical subjects, such as young Spartan men and women.Musicians in the Orchestra, 1871 pic.twitter.com/KbW5whKID8
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1870: During the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Degas' eyesight was found to be faulty, which concerned Degas and he was plagued by worrisome eye problems for the rest of his life.Dance for the Opera, 1872 pic.twitter.com/ORvDsKEeDD
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In his lifetime, Degas was considered an Impressionist, but he rejected that categorization, insisting that his work was Realism.Ballet Rehearsal, 1873 pic.twitter.com/jQwGm9I78z
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As an adult, Degas changed the spelling of his name from the family "De Gas" to Degas.The Cotton Exchange in New Orleans, 1873
(the only painting of his to sell in his lifetime) pic.twitter.com/ihdoxzabdb— Dr. Alexandria Szeman: #BelieveSurvivors (@Alexandria_SZ) September 14, 2019
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Degas ridiculed his contemporaneous Impressionist painters for doing their landscapes outdoors ("en plein air"), and he eventually rejected the Salon as a valid means of exhibiting his work.The Ballet Class, 1873-76 pic.twitter.com/6z8jfsOYAl
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Since Degas has trained himself as an historical painter, he brought the detail of traditional painting methods to his contemporary subject matter.Ballet Rehearsal on the Stage, 1874 pic.twitter.com/J6cVAaDdp4
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Degas is considered a master at portraying movement in his paintings.The Ballet Rehearsal, 1873 pic.twitter.com/7H3XS07GY6
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Degas is associated with ballet and dancers since those have become his most famous paintings: throughout his lifetime, however, he painted other striking subjects.Absinthe Drinker in the Cafe, 1876 pic.twitter.com/wcdu5QER5u
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Degas' paintings often display "psychological complexity" and "portray human isolation" even in the midst of many other people.Dancer with a Bouquet of Flowers (also, Star of the Ballet), 1878 pic.twitter.com/vFPjuyryMw
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Throughout his life, Degas kept his personal life intensely private: he believed that "an artist must live alone, and his private life must remain unknown."The Stage Rehearsal, 1878-79 pic.twitter.com/UwrThXiyLB
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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.“
~ Edgar DegasDancer in her Dressing Room, 1879 pic.twitter.com/TW7x1M3eln
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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.“
~ Edgar DegasTwo Dancers, 1879 pic.twitter.com/2IToJ1zUVR
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Degas was extremely conservative in his social attitudes and abhorred scandal, which may have been one of the reasons for his intense privacy.Three Dancers in an Exercise Hall, 1880 pic.twitter.com/k42b6uCUtg
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Degas developed an extremely close relationship with American painter Mary Cassatt, though neither of them ever admitted any romantic or passionate involvement with each other (or with anyone else, for that matter).Portrait of Mary Stevenson Cassatt, 1880-84 pic.twitter.com/HYOWIB1rkg
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1880-1900: Degas developed a passion for photography, doing photographic portraits of his friends as well as of himself.Self-Portrait, 1885 pic.twitter.com/wLQyy1L1HD
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Degas also took photographs that resembled some of his famous paintings of nudes.The Tub, 1886 pic.twitter.com/Sra0SWg70V
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The Woman in the Bath, 1886 pic.twitter.com/GzQtakMGWK
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After the Bath, also, Woman Drying her Nape, 1898 pic.twitter.com/AY9hd3mp2N
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The Dreyfus Affair (1890s-early 1900s) revealed the underbelly of Degas' anti-Semitism: he broke of any relationships with his Jewish friends and stopped using models he suspected of being Jewish.The Pink Dancers Before the Ballet, 1884 pic.twitter.com/oU3VCDG1Ey
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Degas remained outspokenly anti-Semitic and against "women's rights" for the remainder of his life, which caused great conflict in his friendship with artist Mary Cassatt.Little Dancer, 14 Years Old, 1922 (cast posthumously)
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After suffering from increasing failing eyesight for decades and eventually becoming totally blind, Degas died in 1917 of a brain aneurysm.Self-Portrait, with Zoé Closier
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