Edgar Degas

Mary Cassatt was an American artist who worked mainly in Europe, and was affiliated with the Impressionist movement. She is most popular for her paintings of women and children in everyday settings.Because of her involvement with the Impressionists, she received a lot of criticism - mainly for her vibrant colors and unflattering accuracy with which she painted her subjects. She is an inspiring artist because of how she overcame every obstacle in her way to become on artist. She didn’t like her…

Richland Jr. High Essex, Mo Edgar Degas Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834, and died September 27, 1917. Edgar was born in Paris, France. He also died in Paris, France. Edgar died of brain aneurysm. Edgar was a French artist who was highly famous in the 19th century, and was famous for not only his paintings, but also his sculptures, drawings, and prints. Most of his paintings were of dancers. Edgar was actually not born “Edgar Degas”, but Hilaire-Germain-Edgar. His father was a…

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…

principles of design, Edgar Degas’ painting, entitled, The Green Dancer, will be analyzed, interpreted and judged. This painting was created with pastel in 1879. The painting is 36 centimeters wide by 66 centimeters tall. It resides in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Spain. The Green Dancer was created during the 19th-century art movement called Impressionism. Nine Dancers are dressed in costume performing and preparing to perform a ballet dance. The artwork created by Degas features…

Five Dancing Women is a 19th century painting, stolen by the Nazis in World War 2. It portrays five dancers, or ballerinas. Edgar Degas was born in Paris, France, to Celestine and Augustin De Gas. Preferring a not so elegant title, the young artist shortened his last name to Degas. His father was a banker, so the family of five children was fairly wealthy. At age eleven, Degas began school and graduated in 1853 with a bachelor’s degree in literature. Upon turning eighteen he had a room dedicated…

Degas’s work with the other Impressionist, there seems to be a considerable differences states, Miss Cassatt was not a pupil of Degas nor did either of them belong to that group of painters known as Impressionist. Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas were not totally captivated with the study of light and they did not enslave themselves to the happenings of nature. Although Cassatt and Degas along with the rest of the avant-garde group had common concerns. They all wanted to paint what they felt like…

Erin Allbritton Professor Andrea Beaky ART119 3 March 2015 Mary Cassatt was artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 22, 1944. She was known to be a famous artist, painter, and a printmaker. As she grew up, she learned to experience art in many different ways. When Mary turned 16, she wanted to be an artist and she wanted to make a lifetime career out of it. In order to become an artist, she attended Philadelphia’s own Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. As her career as an artist…

Judy Cassab was born in Vienna in 1920 to Hungarian and Jewish parents. After surviving the horrors of the Second World War by assuming the identity of her German maid, she migrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children and settled in Sydney. In Australia, she quickly gained a reputation for her distinctive expressionist technique and portrait abilities. Since her first solo exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney in 1953, Judy Cassab has held well over fifty solo…

the human figure, artists reveal their present insight into culture that has been informed by their personal life and audience. Inherently present in art, these manifestations of culture are contorted throughout time as social paradigms change. Edgar Degas’ sculpture, Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881) was indicative of the conservative and aristocratic community of the 18th century that disguised a world of vulnerability and despondency, replacing it with an overtly aestheticized portrayal…

design and they include line, shape, mass/volume, perspective, texture and color. We use these elements of design to add more depth to our analysis of artwork. All of these elements can be seen in the painting After the Bath, Woman drying herself by Edgar Degas. The main lines in this piece are the vertical and diagonal lines where the floor and wall meet in the background. The woman seen in the picture also has a defined contour that looks slightly blurry, this is likely to show her movement as…