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Edgar Degas lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of French Impressionism and Realism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈ d eɪ ɡ ɑː /, US: / d eɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː, d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː /; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Degas began by copying Italian Renaissance paintings at the Louvre and trained in the studio of Louis Lamothe, who taught in the traditional academic style, with its emphasis on line and its insistence on the crucial importance of draftsmanship.
May 31, 2024 · Edgar Degas was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was prominent in the Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life. Degas’s principal subject was the human figure, which he explored in studies of laundresses, cabaret singers, milliners, ballet dancers, and prostitutes.
Edgar Degas (27 September 1917 – 19 July 1834) was a French Impressionist painter best known for his pastel sketches and oil paintings. Additionally, Degas created bronze sculptures, prints, and sketches.
The following year, Degas exhibited at the Paris Salon, the first of six consecutive showings, showing works such as Édouard Manet and Mme. Manet and The Orchestra of the Opera (both 1868-69), paintings that subtly blurred the lines between straight portraiture and genre painting.
Works of Art. Artist Bibliography. Biography. The eldest son of a Parisian banker, Edgar Degas reinforced his formal academic art training by copying Old Master paintings both in Italy, where he spent three years (1856–1859), and at the Louvre.
