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Degas’s Horse – The Art Camp Version

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Degas, Dogs, Edgar Degas Horse, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on June 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday the Art Campers painted their version of Degas’s Horse and Dog. They did a marvelous job. These young artists can PAINT!!!

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More Degas Dancers

Posted in daily painter, tagged Dancers, Degas, Edgar Degas on May 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago I posted about Degas’ Little Dancer sculpture that I saw at the Met. I mentioned that the gallery was a dancers dream. (Read that post here.) Here is a closer look at the other dancers in the room – some wonderful dancer paintings.

Edgar Degas
Dancer with Fan and The Dancers

Dancer with a Fan, 1890-95, pastel and charcoal on buff-colored paper, was a study that he did for the Dancers in the Wings painting that is at the St. Louis Art Museum.

The Dancers, about 1900, pastel and charcoal on paper, is thought to be a second painting that he did of this composition that was done as he was making revisions to the original painting.

Dancers Practicing at the Barre
Edgar Degas

Dancers Practicing at the Barre, 1877, mixed media on canvas, gives you a glance at the open door of a dance studio.

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Little Dancer by Degas

Posted in Little Known Facts, Travel, Trivia, tagged Ballet, Degas, Edgar Degas, Little Dancer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met, Travel on May 5, 2013| 1 Comment »

Little Dancer – Edgar Degas

Over the years I have posted many times about Edgar Degas and his dancers. The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer that he sculpted in 1880 is just beautiful. Degas exhibited the original version of this sculpture at the 6th Impressionist exhibit in 1881. The wax original was tinted to simulate flesh, clothed in a fabric bodice, tutu, and ballet slippers and topped with a horsehair wig tied behind with a silk ribbon. Can you imagine seeing that???!!! Did you know that this sculpture was not cast in bronze until after Degas died. His family had it done and 69 sculptures survived the bronzing process. (You can read and see more about it here and at the link at the end of this post.)

Degas Dancer from the back

The wonderful thing about seeing the sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently is that they have it displayed right in the middle of a gallery where you can walk all the way around it. Wonderful! And there are many Degas Dancer paintings hanging in the gallery with it. A dancer would be in heaven!

There is much known and written about Degas and his dancers. Check it out here.

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Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity at the Met

Posted in Travel, Trivia, tagged Degas, Impressionism Fashion and Modernity, Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Degas’ Millinery Shop

A new show opened yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. I WANT TO GO! Of course, I do. 🙂 It takes a look at the role of fashion in the work of the impressionist painters. It should be fascinating as that work takes place in the mid to late 1800’s when fashion was amazing. One of my favorite Degas paintings, “The Millinery Shop” is in the show. Hats like these are glorious. The wonderful thing about these special exhibits is that some wonderful curator has pulled together paintings from wonderful museums all over the world and put them in one place for us to see. This show features works from The Art Institute of Chicago, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, The Museum Folkwang in Essen and several others. Some of these paintings have never traveled to the United States. That is the ingenious things about these shows. And we get to see it. Did I mention I WANT TO GO! 🙂 You can see more about the show by clicking here.

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Degas at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Posted in Travel, tagged Degas, Little Dancer, Philadelphia Museum of Art on April 19, 2012| 1 Comment »

Over the next few days I want to share with you some of the wonderful art that I saw at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) this week. Today it’s Edgar Degas that I feature. A French painter and sculptor, he was born in 1834 and died in 1917.

He is famous for his dancers and especially the “Little Dancer” sculpture that he did. But did you know that the original piece, made of wax, stood in his studio for forty years. After he died his heirs decided to make bronze casts of it. They are completely bronze apart from the dancer’s gauze tutu and silk ribbon. There were less than thirty copies made and many of them can now be seen in some of the world’s most best museums including Philadelphia and the National Gallery in Washington DC.

And continuing the ballet/dancer theme, this painting “The Ballet Class”, he painted in oil on canvas in 1880. The information provided by the painting said, “Degas spent a great deal of time in the corridors and rehearsal rooms of the Opera, where he would have seen mothers like this one managing their young daughters’ careers.”

And another really interesting thing that I discovered at the PMA is their cell phone tour program. You can dial this number, 267-519-5646 and punch in a number that relates to a particular painting, this one is #364, and hear more about the painting. How cool is that? Go ahead, give it a try.

How cool is that???!!!!

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