Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas (1834-born 1947) was a French artist known for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.
His passion for dance is evident; more than half of his works depict dancers.
He was considered one of Impressionism's foundings, but he refused the term in favour of being described as a genuineist.
As can be seen in his portrayal of dancers, racecourse subjects, and female nudes, he was a superb draftsman, especially in portraying movement.
Degas' portraits are notable for their psychological sensitivity and depiction of human loneliness, as well as his commitment to being a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared thanks to his rigorous academic education and close study of classical art.
He changed direction in his early thirties, bringing the traditional techniques of a historian painter to bear on a modern subject matter, becoming a classical painter of modern life.
Early life
Degas was born in Paris, France, into a moderately wealthy family. He was the fifth child of Célestine Musson De Gas, a Creole from New Orleans, Louisiana, and Augustin De Gas, a banker. Germain Musson, his maternal grandfather, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of French descent, and had settled in New Orleans in 1810.
Degas (he adopted this less formal spelling of his family name as an adult) began his education at the age of eleven, enrolling in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His mother died when he was 13 years old, and his father and several unmarried uncles were the key influences on him for the remainder of his life.
Early in life, Degas began to paint. By the time he graduated from the Lyce with a baccalauréat in literature in 1853, he had converted a room in his house into an artist's studio. He registered as a copyist at the Louvre Museum after graduating, but his father wanted him to attend law school. Degas was accepted at the University of Paris's Faculty of Law in November 1853 but made no attempt to improve his studies.
"You will become a good artist" after meeting Jean-Auguste Ingres, whom he adored and whose advice he never forgot in 1855. Degas was accepted to the École des Beaux-Arts in April of this year. He studied in Ingres with Louis Lamothe, under whose direction he flourished.
Degas left Italy in July 1856 and stayed there for the next three years. In 1858, while staying with his aunt's family in Naples, he did the first research for his early masterpiece The Bellelli Family. He also created and crafted many copies of Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and other Renaissance artists, but—contrary to common use: a secondary figure or a head that he made from an altarpiece drew his attention: a secondary figure or a portrait which he treated as a portrait.
Artistic career
Degas converted a Paris studio large enough to allow him to begin painting The Bellelli Family, an imposing canvas he wanted for display in the Salon, but it wasn't finished until 1867. Alexander and Bucephalus, as well as The Daughter of Jephthah, 1859–60; Sémiramis Building Babylon in 1860; and Young Spartans circa 1860. Degas visited his childhood friend Paul Valpinçon in Normandy in 1861 and began his first of his many studies of horses in 1861. He appeared at the Salon for the first time in 1865, when the jury accepted his painting Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which attracted little attention.
Despite having been in the Salon for five years, he did not produce any more history paintings, and his Steeplechase — Fallen Jockey (1866) showed his increasing attention to contemporary subject matter. According to a tale that may have been apocryphal), the change in his art was largely influenced by Édouard Manet, whom Degas had seen in 1864 (while both were copying the same Velázquez portrait in the Louvre).
Degas enlisted in the National Guard at the start of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, but his defense of Paris left him little time for painting. His eyesight was discovered to be skewed during rifle training, and his eye problems remained a constant worry throughout his life.
Degas began his stay in New Orleans, where his brother René and a number of other relatives lived after the war. Degas continued to live on Esplanade Avenue, Necrole uncle Michel Musson's home, and some of them depicting family members. A Cotton Office in New Orleans, one of Degas' New Orleans creations, attracted a following in France, and was his first work purchased by a museum (the Pau) during his lifetime.
Degas returned to Paris in 1873 and his father died the following year, but Degas learned that his brother René had amassed significant business debts. Degas sold his house and an art collection he had inherited in order to protect his family's name and reputation, as well as pay off his brother's debts. He made much of his best work during the decade beginning in 1874, and was relying on income-based sales for the first time in his life. He joined a group of young artists who were organising an independent exhibiting group, dissatisfied by now with the Salon. The Impressionists were soon recognized.
They organized eight art shows between 1874 and 1886, which are known as the Impressionist Exhibitions. Despite his continued rivalry with others in the group, Degas was instrumental in arranging the exhibits and demonstrated his art in all but one of them. He had little in common with Monet and the other landscape painters in the group, who mocked painting outdoors. He abhorred the exhibitions' scandal, as well as the press and advertisements that his colleagues requested. He also loathed being identified with the word "Impressionist," which the press had coined and popularized, and insisted on including non-Impressionist artists such as Jean-Louis Forain and Jean-François Raffalli in the group's shows. The group's resulting infighting contributed to its disbanding in 1886.
As his financial situation improved through the selling of his own work, he was able to indulge in his passion for collecting works by artists he admired: El Greco and such contemporaries as Manet, Cassatt, Pissarro, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Édouard Brandon. Ingres, Delacroix, and Daumier's collection was particularly well represented by three artists he adored.
Degas developed a passion for photography in the late 1880s. In his double portrait of Renoir and Mallarmé, he photographed several of his relatives, many by lamplight, often by torchlight. In some of Degas' drawings and paintings, other photographs depicting dancers and nudes were used for reference.
Degas became isolescent as the years went by, due in part to his belief that a painter could have no personal life. Dreyfus Affair's anti-Semitic leanings came to the forefront, and he and his Jewish friends were banned from attending all his Jewish colleagues. Renoir, who said of him, "What a creature he was, that Degas?" All his families had to leave him; I was one of the last to leave, but even I couldn't stay until the end."
Degas' eyesight, which had long worried him, deteriorated even more. Though he was known to have been working pastels as late as 1907 and is estimated to have begun making sculptures as late as 1910, when the impending demolition of his longtime residence on the rue Victor Massé caused him to move to quarters. He never married and lived the last years of his life, nearly blind, and was wandering Paris streets before dying in September 1917.
