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Edgar Degas was born July 19, 1834, and died 1917 in Paris, Frances. He has great attracted to the artistic lines forms and colors in his art, having a historic tension of his artwork that was still much debated in this time. In Italy he modeled some drawings on the linear skills of the mastery such as Leonardo. However, he acknowledged the techniques of the more famous painters and his talent of drawing and painting advances overtime. Degas make unique artwork in Paris art gallery the 19th century the make classical painting of daily life almost guilty imitating by other professional artist in his field of work who was the leading of lyrical color in the century and considered to be others opinion. However, Degas had reason to feel more optimistic. In spite of his association with the unpopular group of artists his work appealed to collectors. Seven of his ten pictures in the exhibition were sold even before …show more content…
The audiences were frequently disconnected by his images of popular entertainment or back-street gentlemen. He has an sharp eye for the topical gesture and heightened by a radical use of perspective, This radical perspective embodied the extreme viewpoints of a newly mobile society. In his profession he rarely socials with people he was a shy man in his daily life. “Already famed for his dry humor, Degas seemed to tease his viewers by opting for ambiguity revealing a glamorous nightclub singer in all her a “(Armstrong, Carol)”. His skill of being artist he his a theme show in his art piece of ballet routines, horse races , and women in his art that really speak to him in his profession “Degas was seen as the leader of a more traditionally skilled faction within the group and his pictures were brought out by collectors. Critics approving pointed out that his work was ground in knowledge of the old masters of art and a firm line, qualities they found lacking in some of Degas’s peers (Armstrong,

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