FRENCH LANGUAGE "Degas, the painter of modern life, is a pure classic who, however astonishing this may seem, is much more like the ancients than the moderns, the primitives than the contemporaries. He forms the link that connects the past, the good and solid tradition, to the future; he extends it magnificently. With Manet, he liberated 19th century painting from the pedantic and routine constraints, from the shackles of academic teaching, from formulas repeated over and over again, from the conventional, the false, the misleading. Between them, they bring it back to direct
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