To search the press groups, associations, sponsor, businessmen for the site “News-art-culture.com”. „ I want to be famous and unknown”.( Edgar Degas).The pleasure for the art is without the limit; to start studying and continuing contemplative, admiring tacit or ectasias. Degas want to be famous for himself, for his opera, exceed the classicism and academism in the art.

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas to birth to Paris the 19 July 1830 , is been a French painter and sculpture. He can name the impressionism ‘s founder but his painting technic renew the painting, preferring to be named the realist. The impressionists in painting preferer” that don’t view never in memory”, Degas is been an embarrassing modernist always controversial by era’s artists. Among the critics to wrote:” The painting is the first, a product of imagination, don’t can never to be a copy. The air which   to view in the painting don’t is breathing”. He becomes a classic of modern life, linked the past of present knowing to be faithfully at the classic lows until the new painting innovations. In principal he starts the new painting which will development in future decade. 

The artistic study, painting technic, the themes?

After the study in low, following of a big pleasure for the art, he starts to frequenting L’École de Beaux- Arts studying the drawing with Louis Lamothe , the student by Ignés. Without to finalize the study, he starts to make a travel in Italy where he learns the art renaissance sensibility in his refinement copying Michelangelo, Raffaello, Tiziano. In study he does of not remains attracted neither of perfection, neither of detail, but only by portrait imagine, becomes a big portraitist. In painting he enters under the Manet’s influence, the friends of temps sharing same passions for the Japanese paintings, with which he knows the impressionist group at Coffee Guerbois . In vision of Degas, El Greco is considerate the master, his admires are Pissaro, Cezanne, Gauguin, Manet, Van Gogh, in change the idols remain Ingnés, Delacroix, Daumier. 

The principal Characteristic and the new use of the light, the subjects in landscape

In his painting he has a big predilection for the portraits, the works are at demi where enter portrait and death nature. The sources of inspiration are the horse racing, dance, opera, scenes of coffee, scenes of theatre, scenes of concert and quotidian life. The dance will mean the carrier of Degas. The dancers are as the stars from which the look not can lifting, he paintings in time when to they to prepare looking and exhibitions.  The painting are in the rapid color brushes, accenting the chromatic effect and lightly vibrations.

He always innovative in his art! Free in expression! 

For the portraits he uses the lives colors opposed in violent harmony, he remains fascinate of dancers but remains always attracted of women. He cultivates the taste for technic experiment searching the new themes: the women from ironing, mannequins, women of toilets. He becomes famous for the spontaneity in compositions, innovations and technics multiplying the points of view of down in up, the colors are originals, the lights vibrations fall on the women nudity. He opens the way for a painting which will development in future decade. He is identified as master of movement; the subjects prefer are dancers and the women nudity. In sculpture the models are in wax painted natural completed with the hairs, the shoes of dance, the dress represented of a big realism. (| The little dancer at fourteen years”), a sculpture more controversy in that era). His sculpture is noted of realism, bringing a revolution in sculptural traditionalism. He is death to Paris the 27 September 1917. Degas remains an embarrassing modernism between the artists of era. The critics appreciate him or denigrate; he is admired and controversial. 

The works?

Ballerinas , Woma, Woman old, Ballet- Star, Dance-examine, Theatre, Three dancers, Bath tub, Portrait of Mary Cassatt, Car racing, Orchestras, Field of race, Portrait of painting Bonnat , Portrait of young woman, Self-portraits, Ballerina with flowers…

The realism is always present in art of Degas, from expressions accentuated of gestures, from refinement in dance until to female beautiful represented by nude body. The vibrations of color and the light effects give the expressivity, the dance become free, the female beautiful enters in harmony with the spectacle. You look and remain fascinate. Degas remains the paintre of impressionist movement in art, innovative, modernist, solitary, his freedom is found in the art. Looking Degas enter in his works, dancing in the brushes distributed with refinement in the reflexes of light, in living harmony. One, two, three… are the steps of ballet in Degas’ work.