Degas_Ballet_Dancers

Degas Ballet Dancers Edgar Degas painted the impressionist piece The Dancing Class in 1871. The painting is oil on canvas that is approximately 85 X 75 cm. Edgar Degas was a French artist, acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure in motion. Degas worked in many mediums, preferring pastel to all others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and bronzes of ballerinas and of race horses. Degas’ The Dancing Class is a work of art. Degas captures the ballet class on canvas just like a photogragh. It seems very real and delicate at the same time. Degas’ piece belongs to the Impressionist period when the fleeting moment was caputured by many artists of the period. The art of Degas reflects a concern for the psychology of movement and expression and the harmony of line and continuity of contour. These characteristics set Degas apart from the other impressionist painters. In the early 1870s the female ballet dancer became his favorite theme. He sketched from a live model in his studio and combined poses into groupings that depicted rehearsal and performance scenes in which dancers on stage, entering the stage, and resting or waiting to perform are degas, dancers, paintings, impressionist, ballet, art, performance, painting, class, became, yet, work, time, stage, scenes, scene, real, race, piece, pictures, period, movement, ingres, great, edgar, early, direction, degas’, dancing, contemporary, canvas, artists, years, works, worked