Author: Edgar Degas
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Presents the life and paintings of Edgar Degas in a first person narrative drawn from letters, notebooks, and people's stories about the artist.
Author: Read with You Center for Excellence in STEAM Education
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Languages : en
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Author: Amy Guglielmo
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744086345
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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See how iconic artists like Edgar Degas were influenced by their environments in this beautiful series produced in collaboration with The Met. See the world through Edgar Degas’s eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series of books to keep and collect, created in full collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can see what they saw, and be inspired to create your own artworks, too. In What the Artist Saw: Edgar Degas, meet the famous French painter and sculptor. Learn all about how he broke new ground and captured the energy and elegance of skilled ballet dancers. In this series, follow the artists’ stories and find intriguing facts about their environments and key masterpieces. Then see what you can see and make your own art. Take a closer look at landscapes, or even yourself, with Vincent van Gogh. Try crafting a story in fabric like Faith Ringgold, or carve a woodblock print at home with Hokusai. Every book in this series is one to treasure and keep—perfect for budding young artists to explore exhibitions with then continue their own artistic journeys.
Author: Melody S. Mis
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1435845447
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Young art lovers will be stimulated by this biographical portrait of Edgar Degas. Kid-friendly explanations of both the artist's techniques and his historical context are enhanced by a two-page spread of one of Degas's most famous works.
Author: Melody S. Mis
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404238398
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Profiles the French impressionist artist Edgar Degas, discussing his early life, the development of his talent, and the characteristics of his work.
Author: Tavis Leaf Glover
Publisher: Tavis Leaf Glover
ISBN: 1320107699
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 127
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There’s nothing more important to the future of your artwork than to educate and nurture the unique talent you were born to share with the world. The Canon of Design represents artistic integrity, and enables you to leave your mark on this earth as one of the most talented visual communicators ever known. Learn the language of design to stand with the great masters and reflect the beauty prominently found in nature. This field manual is written to you, for you, and will help shorten your journey to achieving artistic excellence!
Author: Nathalia Brodskaya
Publisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 1783102861
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist’s circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings. Degas did not attend Gleyre’s studio; most likely he first met the future impressionists at the Café Guerbois. He started his apprenticeship in 1853 at the studio of Louis-Ernest Barrias and, beginning in 1854, studied under Louis Lamothe, who revered Ingres above all others, and transmitted his adoration for this master to Edgar Degas. Starting in 1854 Degas travelled frequently to Italy: first to Naples, where he made the acquaintance of his numerous cousins, and then to Rome and Florence, where he copied tirelessly from the Old Masters. His drawings and sketches already revealed very clear preferences: Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Mantegna, but also Benozzo Gozzoli, Ghirlandaio, Titian, Fra Angelico, Uccello, and Botticelli. During the 1860s and 1870s he became a painter of racecourses, horses and jockeys. His fabulous painter’s memory retained the particularities of movement of horses wherever he saw them. After his first rather complex compositions depicting racecourses, Degas learned the art of translating the nobility and elegance of horses, their nervous movements, and the formal beauty of their musculature. Around the middle of the 1860s Degas made yet another discovery. In 1866 he painted his first composition with ballet as a subject, Mademoiselle Fiocre dans le ballet de la Source (Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet ‘The Spring’) (New York, Brooklyn Museum). Degas had always been a devotee of the theatre, but from now on it would become more and more the focus of his art. Degas’ first painting devoted solely to the ballet was Le Foyer de la danse à l’Opéra de la rue Le Peletier (The Dancing Anteroom at the Opera on Rue Le Peletier) (Paris, Musée d’Orsay). In a carefully constructed composition, with groups of figures balancing one another to the left and the right, each ballet dancer is involved in her own activity, each one is moving in a separate manner from the others. Extended observation and an immense number of sketches were essential to executing such a task. This is why Degas moved from the theatre on to the rehearsal halls, where the dancers practised and took their lessons. This was how Degas arrived at the second sphere of that immediate, everyday life that was to interest him. The ballet would remain his passion until the end of his days.
Author: Alix Wood
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477754105
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Edgar Degas was a French artist who rose to fame in the late 1800s. His paintings and sculptures of both horses and dancers are still known throughout the world today. Readers explore Degas’s life by taking an in-depth look at some of his most famous works of art. Facts about this artist and the techniques he employed are presented alongside historical images as well as images of Degas’s masterpieces. Sidebars provide additional information about the life and work of one of the founders of Impressionism.
Author: Denys Sutton
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Contains reproductions of the artist's work, extracts from his correspondence, and a study of the artist's personality and work.
Author: Bernd Growe
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783822811368
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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An introduction to the life and work of nineteenth-century French artist Edgar Degas, discussing his cultural and historical importance, and including a chronology and over one hundred color illustrations with explanatory captions.
