DVD Degas, The Body Stripped Bare

DVD Degas, The Body Stripped Bare

Edgar Degas

Setting aside the silks and satins reveals the nude body. But it also unveils flesh in motion, unguarded stances. It exposes, exponentially, hitherto hidden movements.

Degas was a genius, reaching his goal at the rawest extreme of representation. His "obscene" brothel nudes were a high-definition ...
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€14.90

Characteristics

Length :
52 min
Deaf and hearing-impaired :
No
Museum :
Musée d'Orsay
Themes :
Scenic arts, Nude
Language 2 :
French
Multimedia setting :
NTSC
Artist :
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Art movement :
Impressionism
EAN :
3660485999878
Reference :
AV600111

Editor

Distributor :
FRANCE TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION
Director :
Sandra Paugam

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The artist

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Famous for his dancers, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is often considered one of the masters of Impressionism, despite defining himself as a realist and an independent. Fascinated by the study of movement, he attached himself to all the motives that represented life: dance, of course, but also horse races. Like his friend Manet, Degas was one of the great painters of modern life, coffee scenes, brothels, milliners, laundresses ... The work of this Parisian and bourgeois artist, very cultured and collector, is marked by his knowledge of the great masters.