Edgar Degas The Group Of Dancers Analysis

The Group of Dancers is a 1900’s painting by Edgar Degas at the Barnes Foundation Museum. The painting illustrates ballerinas preparing for their dance before they perform on stage. There are three ballerinas, and each of them is dressed in a bright yellow tutu. Two of the ballerinas are rehearsing for their performance while the third ballerina is putting on her ballet shoes. As a whole, the Group of Dancers is a perfect example of Plato’s beliefs in The Republic. The painting is an imitation or merely a facsimile, rather than a reality, and the artist Degas was an imitator.
Edgar Degas was a French artist and one of the founders of Impressionism. He was born on July 19, 1834 to Celestine Musson De Gas and Augustin Degas. Through his wealthy family, Degas had the privilege to pursue his desires. Different from the common artists of the period, he had his own individual style. Degas rejected …show more content…
Intelligible realm is the realm of knowledge, where things are enteral and universal. In the ineligible there are forms created by God. He is creator of all things. The objects that God creates exist in nature, and God created only one of each of these objects. The object the carpenter creates exists in the visible realm, where there are no objects of knowledge. He cannot create real objects because only God can create things from nature. Thereby, the carpenter creates a copy of what God created. The painter also exists in the visible realm. He is an imitator of creations made by the carpenter. The painter paints the carpenter’s artwork, he illustrates an illusion, and thus, his paintings are third removed from truth. Similar to the painters, poets like Homer are also imitators. Socrates believes imitators should be banished from the city, because they are able to provoke the emotions of an audience, and thus people would less likely to be less