There is a degree of distance from the motif, and the dark gazes towards the observer from the dog on the garden path and from the child in the foreground sharpen our consciousness of our role as observers. Edgar Degas seems never to have reconciled himself to the label of Impressionist, preferring to call himself a Realist or Independent. This gives an overall analytical effect and leaves no impression that Degas is interested in these particular children as such. The gestures of the womens raised arms and feet capture the actions, forms, and poses of the.
The architecture is clearly indicated and captured by black perspective lines, while the children and the garden plants are painted very freely. Edgar Degas (18341917), Dancer (study) (c 1880), pastel and charcoal on blue-gray wove paper, 48.9 x 31.8 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Edgar Degas depicts seven dancers performing in a ballet. Precisely the sketch-like, unfinished impression is characteristic of his work from this period, and adds a great deal to the interest of the pictures.ĭegas typically combines this painting method with a firmly shaped, sharply drawn contour, and the contrast between the sketch-like and the clear line strengthens the radical nature of the picture. He exhibited it at the Second Impressionist Exhibition in 1876 as “une esquisse” (a sketch). Edgar Degas era un joven tímido, muy sensible y algo retraído, lo que a menudo dificultaba sus relaciones con los demás, tal como puede observarse en una serie de autorretratos que pintó entre los años 1854 y 1858.
The picture was painted during Degas’ stay with his family in New Orleans in 1872-73. He viewed himself as a realist or naturalist painter, and his worship of Ingress finished drawing marked his entire output.
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