From the Old Masters, Degas's new themes From: International Herald Tribune | Date: January 8, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Roderick Conway Morris
International Herald Tribune
01-08-2005
Edgar Degas was a contradictory figure. He was at once the most experimental and most traditional of the major artists of his era, and despite his association with the group, the least impressionist of the Impressionists.The artist exhibited at all but one of the eight Impressionist Exhibitions from 1874 to 1886, but only showed much interest in landscape at the beginning and the end of his career. His subject matter was overwhelmingly the human figure, and the horse, that most revered of animals in ancient classical art.Degas ...

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