Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas

• By Chary Goris
• A.K.A Christelle

"One must do the same subject over again ten
times, a hundred times. In art nothing must
resemble an accident, not even movement."
-Edgar Degas
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Why should we care?
We should care about history and people of the
past because they can teach us things. We can
learn from their mistakes and achievements. We
can get inspired from people like, Edgar Degas.
He gave the French or European people the example
to be unique, to be ourselves, to be a leader
not a follower. I think he also left us the
example, not to accept the wrong perception
someone can have about you.

• Learn
• Example
• Inspiration
• Admiration
• Determination

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The Life of Edgar Degas
Cabaret
Girl At Ironing Board
Two Dancers on Stage
Racehorses in a Landscape
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Who was Edgar Degas?

• Edgar Hilaire Germain de Gas
• Born on July 19, 1834,in Paris
• Wealthy
• Parents Auguste de Gas Célestine Musson
• Grandparents

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Where did his interest in art come from?

• Influences
• Auguste de Gas
• Louvre
• Ecole des Beaux-Arts
• Jean Dominique Ingres (AKA Ingres) Eugene
  Delacroix
• Italian Art
• Primitive 15th century artists

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La famille Bellelli - 1857-60
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Cotton Exchange in New Orleans1872
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What is Impressionism?

• Style
• Edouard Manet

Luncheon on the grass 1863Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Self-portrait with the palette 1879
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Classicism

• Style
• Jean Dominique Ingres

Detail of the Apotheosis of Homer (Victoria)
1827 (40 Kb)
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Why did I care to present on Edgar Degas?
BALLERINE IN ROSA (Danseuses)
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The Dance Foyer at the Opera on the Rue Le
Peletier
Danseuse au Repos
Blue Dancers
Ballett Um 1879
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Why?
Woman Drying Her Neck
After the Bath, Woman Drying her Neck
Tub
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The artist Edgar Degas(1834-1917)
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Works Cited

• Huttinger, Eduard. Degas. N.p. n.p., n.d. Print.
• Skira, Albert. The Taste of Our Time. Trans.
  James Emmons. Cleveland 2 World      Publishing
  Company, 1989. Print. Vol. 5 of DEGAS.
• "Degas." Met Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Mar.
  2011. lthttp//www.metmuseum.org/
       explore/degas/html/index.htmlgt.
• "Edgar Degas." Life and Work of the french
  painter and sculptor Edgar Degas.      N.p.,
  n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2011. lthttp//www.degas-painting
  .info/      degasbiography.htmgt.
• "Edgar Degas Biography." Edgar Degas.Net. N.p.,
  n.d. Web. 11 May 2011.      lthttp//www.edgardega
  s.net/Edgar-Degas-Biography.aspxgt.
• "Edgar Degas 1834-1917." Impressionniste. N.p.,
  n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2011.      lthttp//www.impressi
  onniste.net/degas_edgar.htmgt.
• Edgar Degas The Complete Works. N.p., n.d. Web.
  11 Mar. 2011.      lthttp//www.edgar-degas.orggt.
  
• Pioch, Nicolas. "Degas, (Hilaire-Germain-) Edgar
  ." Web Museum. BMW Foundation,      n.d. Web. 15
  Mar. 2011. lthttp//www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/
       degas/gt.