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Edgar Degas in the intimacy of women

Edgar Degas in the intimacy of women

FRENCH LANGUAGE

Is Degas a painter of women? This is a given, since the themes of dancers, milliners, ironers and laundresses, café-concert singers and the female nude abound in his work. However, the way he looks at female nudity, the way he depicts it, has been a source of discussion and criticism ...
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Characteristics

Dimensions :
17,2 x 22,6 x 1,4 cm
Artist :
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Art movement :
Impressionism
Museum :
Musée d'Orsay
Theme :
Women
EAN :
9782848115788
Size of the book :
Paperback with flap
Reference :
MX015254

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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.