Great Modern Masters
Edgar Degas
- Painted mostly with rough brush strokes, faces faded and slightly blurred
- Features a lot of music playing and dancing, having fun
- A few paintings depict normal scenes, and show the calm and contentment of the people in them
- Aspects of mythology used, like hard work, good people in Greek mythology were hard workers...
examples:
- 'The rehearsal' (http://www.poster.net/degas-edgar/degas-edgar-the-rehearsal-on-stage)
- 'The orchestra' (http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/degas/thepainting_1d.htm)
- 'The cotton market, New Orleans' (http://hubpages.com/hub/Edgar-Degas---French-Impressionist)
- 'Girls combing their hair' (http://steveartgallery.se/picture/image-37722.html)
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