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Dancer in front of window, c1874-77 Dancer with tambourine, 1882 "In the winter twilight, in a cold, half-empty studio, a young dancer from the corps de ballet seeks in front of a mirror a more impressive pose for the camera. Extracted from the pattern of the dance, suddenly halted and highlighted, her movements are surprisingly inhibited and unnatural. The artist's keen eye notes the characteristic poses and movements not intended for the casual observer. His inside knowledge of exhausting monotonous days in the ballet world enables him to reproduce the impression of being 'caught unawares'. The view of snow-covered Paris through the window reinforces the ballerina's isolation." ------------------------------------ |
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This series of images of a women moving from bath to bed, is a complete construct, as the sketches were individulally created between 1884 and 1899. As with most, if not all, of the "bathers" done by Degas, they were produced in pastels and from memory after his visits to Paris brothels. ------------------------------------ |
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Singer with a Glove, 1878 This 1878 pastel drawing on canvas is part of a series of works that have cafe-concert singers as their subject. Degas was a habitue of those places, especially the Cafe des Ambassadeurs, and he uses them as the settings for many of his works. ------------------------------------ |
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Dancer, 1882-95 - Blue dancers, c 1899 - Two dancers, c 1896 The world of ballet is a favourite theme of Degas. Yet, unlike many of his contemporaries, the artist was attracted not by the colourful spectacle of the ballet itself, but the prose of life off-stage. For example, Blue Dancers may be a sketch of one and the same dancer. Here she is adjusting her dress, there examining her costume and standing in the wings. ------------------------------------ |
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"Maybe "nude" is really the wrong word for Degas's images. |
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Painting Corner Work in progress. ------------------------------------ |
