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Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar
Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar (1834–1917) French painter and sculptor. Classically trained and an admirer of
Ingres, Degas combined the discipline of classic art with the immediacy of the modern. After meeting Édouard
Manet, he took part in exhibitions of
impressionism and shared an interest in scenes of everyday life, especially ballet and horse-racing. A brilliant draughtsman, he found inspiration in Japanese prints and photography. He made sculptures of dancers and horses to master the expression of movement. His subtle use of colour and light became concentrated in his later pastels.
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Edgar Degas crossed bridge to modernism // Artist stands apart from Impressionists
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/9/1988; ; 700+ words
; NEW YORK In 1881, Edgar Degas exhibited "The Little Fourteen...Greek ideals. By 1865, Degas had given up historical...revolutionary French artist Edgar Manet, whom he probably...in part responsible for Degas' switch. Their friendship...
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Degas's dance world. (News).(Edgar Degas)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; By 1880, Edgar Degas was already known as "the painter of...mark the first major exhibition to place Degas's dance paintings, drawings, prints...nineteenth-century ballet in Paris. "Degas and the Dance" opens next month in Detroit...
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A Degas doubleheader.(Edgar Degas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Edgar Degas will always be one of the most enigmatic...retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in 1988, Degas has starred or played a leading role in...context. Think of the revealing show of Degas's little known landscapes, the survey...
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Edgar Degas - obsessive artist, obsessive collector.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 8/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...devoted to the works of Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas. These are late works. 'After...appear that the models who posed to Degas for weeks or months at a time, simply...revealing aspect of this artist, 'Degas as Collector' which is showing concurrently...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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IMPRESSIONS OF DEGAS; Wealthy Americans snapped up the art of French Impressionist Edgar Degas. Their legacy goes on view this week in Minnesota's first Degas retrospective.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/17/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...enthusiasm in the United States than Edgar Degas (Day-GAH), the wealthy Parisian...Mary Cassatt, who lived in Paris, Degas' art was bought by rich Americans...hometown museums. The exhibition "Degas and America: The Early Collectors...
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THE PAINTER OF MODERN DANCE EDGAR DEGAS WAS OBSESSED WITH CLASSICAL BALLET. BUT HIS RADICAL BACKSTAGE VIEW HELPED PREPARE THE WAY FOR AN ENTIRELY NEW ART OF MOVEMENT.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/11/2003; ; 700+ words
; AMONG THE MANY PLEASURES of "Degas and the Dance," the exhibition...strangeness of speech, seeing so many of Edgar Degas's familiar dance pictures together...The importance of photography for Degas, a decades-old theme in scholarship...
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Degas and Manet: a study in friendship: Jeffrey Meyers explores the intense, admiring, but often wary relationship between two great artists whose lives, as well as art, had many parallels.(Edgar Degas)(Edouard Manet)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet first met in the Louvre...they were both in their late twenties. Degas was etching a copy of Velazquez's painting...brought together Manet's favourite painter, Degas' uncharacteristically bold etching, and...
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 "USA Today (Magazine)")
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Degas and the art of the dance. (Museums Today).(French Impressionist Edgar Degas)(Museum of Art exhibit)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...contemporaries, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was known as "the...to exhaustion. The theme occupied Degas until the last decade of his life...brilliant sunlight of country vistas, Degas became increasingly fascinated by...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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IMPRESSIONS OF PARIS AT JOHNSON MUSEUM; EDGAR DEGAS' PIECE IS CENTERPIECE OF EXHIBITION ON PARISIAN WOMEN.(Stars)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 8/3/2003; 700+ words
; ...suggest that the French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and the Swiss Surrealist...you go What: "Images of Women in Degas' Paris." Where: Herbert F...of the show is an oil painting by Edgar Degas titled "Woman with an Umbrella...
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Edgar Degas in New Orleans.(WALKING through HISTORY)(Brief biography)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...were the only two words that Edgar Degas learned to speak in English...from bakers, not nobility; Edgar changed the spelling to Degas, snubbing the pretense to...SEARCHING FOR A NEW IDENTITY Edgar Degas was not yet famous, but was...
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Degas, Edgar
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edgar Degas Born: July 19, 1834 Paris, France Died...sculptor The French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas is classed with the impressionists (a...sense. The early years Hilaire German Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834, in Paris...
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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas The French painter and sculptor Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is classed with the...surpassed them in compositional sense. Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834, in Paris...
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Edgar Degas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edgar Degas (Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas) , 1834-1917, French painter and sculptor, b. Paris; son of a banker. Although prepared for the law, he abandoned it for painting, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts with L. Lamothe...
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Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar (1834–1917) French painter and sculptor. Classically trained and an admirer of Ingres , Degas combined the discipline of classic art with the immediacy of the...
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Walter Richard Sickert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...frequently based, compositionally, on Degas's paintings. Walter Sickert was...Whistler to Paris, where he met Edgar Degas, whose devoted follower he became...Sickert, though often influenced by Degas not only in the choice of subject...
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