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  • Edgar Degas
    Jul 19, 1834 - Sep 27, 1917
  • Yellow Dancers - Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers.
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  • In the Wings
    1876
    Oil on canvas
    73 cm (28.74 in.) x 60 cm (23.62 in.)
    Art Institute of Chicago, United States.

    Approximately half of Edgar Degas' entire output of paintings and pastels concerns dancers. Perhaps he recognized a parallel between their art - in which precise, demanding techniques are made to appear effortless and beautiful - and his own. Examining the dancer at rest, in rehearsal, behind the scenes, and onstage, he took an almost documentary approach to this subject. Among the twenty-four works shown by Degas at the second Impressionist exhibition, in 1876, were several ballet scenes, including the Art Institute's Yellow Dancers (In the Wings). Degas executed Yellow Dancers quickly and confidently, applying paint thinly and making few alterations after it had dried. Three ballerinas preen in the foreground of this radical composition. Absorbed in the task of adjusting their costumes, they are bathed in light that seems to be filtered through golden gauze. Their curvaceous forms echo the shape of the stage flat behind them; beyond that artificial barrier, we glimpse the calves and feet of a number of dancers. Such unexpected juxtapositions, cut-off forms, and two-dimensional patterning - effects Degas had absorbed from Japanese woodblock prints - heighten the sense of immediacy.

    Degas' preoccupation with dancers was social as well as formal: he often made quite explicit references in his work to the backstage interactions that took place between female performers and their gentlemen patrons. The women's primping, therefore, is not only for the ticket-holding audience, but for other onlookers as well - in this case, the artist himself and the painting's viewers.

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Other paintings by Edgar Degas:

Women Leaning on a Railing
Women Leaning on a Railing
Women on a Cafe Terrace in the Evening
Women on a Cafe Terrace in the Evening
Yellow Dancers II
Yellow Dancers II
Young Girl Braiding Her Hair
Young Girl Braiding Her Hair
Edgar DegasEdgar Degas As the son of a wealthy Parisian banking family, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas originally planned to study law before opting to enter the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1855. His studies there strongly emphasized traditional drawing skills. Degas excelled and his extraordinary draftsmanship became a hallmark of his work. In 1856, Degas traveled extensively throughout Italy where he studied renaissance and classical masterpieces.

As a founding member of the Impressionists, Degas helped to organize the ground-breaking exhibition of 1874, exhibiting 10 of his own pieces in this inaugural show. While historically labeled an Impressionist, Degas preferred the term "Naturalist". He seldom painted en plein- air. Instead preferring to work from sketches and models. The artist once said: "My art has nothing spontaneous about it, it is all reflection." His studies frequently convey an element of psychological tension, offering the viewer intimate vignettes of life in late 19th century Paris. Fascinated with the movement of forms through space, Degas often sketched dancers from the wings of theaters, working in pastel and charcoal to capture his subjects with an unrivaled immediacy. Women dancing or merely engaged in the activities of daily life consistently his favored subject. Scholarship is currently divided as to whether Degas was a misogynist or an early feminist but the raging controversy has yet to dampen enthusiasm for the artist's work.

Degas liked photography so he painted similar to how a camera would capture a picture.