The French painter and sculptor preferred ballet scenes as motives. As one of the early Renaissance and the classicism of trained draftsman, he first painted portraits and history paintings. Then he turned to scenes from operas, theater, horse racing and everyday life, which he represented in a modern style with figurative elements. They are characterized by a sharp observation of the movement and its typical marginal figures. At the age he modeled clay and wax figures. Edgar Degas art-historical importance was recognized only posthumously. Today he is one of the major figures of Impressionism parallel …Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas was born on 19 June 1834, the eldest son of the Parisian banker Pierre Auguste de Gas hyacinth and his Creole woman born in Paris.
The family came from the nobility. Edgar De Gas later gentrified his last name to Degas. Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas started in 1853 to study law at the Sorbonne. At the same time he became interested in intense for the pool of paintings by ancient masters in the Louvre. With only one year, he broke off his studies and attended the classes of the painter Louis Lamothe. In the two years 1855 and 1856 he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He met the French painter and graphic artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and was given an vital impetus.
Over the next three years, Degas stayed with relatives in Italy, especially Florence and Naples. During a stay in Rome he occupied himself in the Villa Medici in painting and studied the ancient Italian artist. Above all, they determined his initial style. Degas training in the art of painting was that many artists he first copied the style and carefully studied. 1859 Degas returned to Paris. The following year he returned to Florence and Naples. This historical depiction “Jeunes Filles des Garcons provoquant Spartans” was in this period.
From 1866 he painted the first of his well-known racecourse pictures such as “Teeple chase”. With Degas had briefly participated in the National Guard in 1870 at the Franco-German war, he devoted himself to untreated light as a stylistic device in his painting. In 1873 he toured North America and stayed for a while with his brother in New Orleans. The following year he participated with ten pictures at a Paris exhibition of the Impressionists. This group exhibition was repeated in the following period. Degas met Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir, with whom he was forthcoming links.
From 1877 Degas focused on new designs, there were mostly scenes from opera, ballet, horse racing and everyday life. Often served him in ballet own photographs to be colored. The characteristic of this period is taken away from the center of the image on the screen and placed the main person who touched it. Shift and attitude of the people are kept sharp, the image with its spatial playback is in its conception as a photographic snapshot. As the material he used pastels. With the death of his father and his brother’s defeat in the cotton business Degas was dependent on the merit of his painting.
During this period he worked with the technique of monotype, whose advantage is the rapid realization. On the other hand, this can only be gained an impression. Nonetheless, Degas produced a second and third impression, although were weaker in its execution. But he filled them with pastel colors and sold them. In 1886 he participated for the last time in an exhibition of the Impressionists, then he turned away from them. Three years later, the blind artist. He had to give up painting, but not his artistic activity. In the following years he studied sculpture and made horses, dancers and female nudes.
In 1919, Degas’ painting titled “Danseuses à la barre” sold to the peak price ever achieved was a work by a living artist in France. Degas Malabsichten were not to present the viewer with the reality. The painter wanted to bring his individual vision of reality articulated. Thus, his works are marked by spontaneity and ease speaking in adjoin of all things from the illustrated dynamic body language – Degas’ pictures speak from untreated movements. They make up the vitality of his images.
The premises play in which the scenes are often opera and ballet theaters, cafes, or circus rings. They give the representations of their respective atmospheric coloring, which was typical in contemporary Paris. Today’s admirers just like this time scenes and her charisma. But his time was criticized by contemporaries, Degas, motifs to paint the road.
Edgar Degas died on 26 September 1917 lonely in Paris.
