Edgar degas the dancers the cleveland museum

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Sign up Log in. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Internet Arcade Console Living Room. The young woman is placed in an undefined setting, surrounded by mere wisps of color, applied so spontaneously that the paint ran and dripped. Degas even added the circles in the foreground with his thumb.

Such audacity, while acceptable in a small sketch, must have shocked the artist's contemporaries when presented on a six-foot canvas. Equally radical is the idea of combining multiple views of a single figure. Degas's unusual presentation may have been inspired by the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge Artist Biography.

Edgar degas the dancers the cleveland museum

Exhibition History. Cite this Page. Frieze of Dancers c. Modern French Painters. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, Mentioned: p. Paris: Brame et de Hauke, Mentioned and reproduced: vol. Armitage, Merle. Dance Memoranda. Reproduced: p. Francis, Henry Sayles. Works by Degas. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.

The works on view in the exhibition Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism , at first glance, could not be more different. To Degas, however, these subjects were intertwined. Indeed, there are surprising similarities between the women who undertook work as dancers and as laundresses.