Blue Dancers by Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas:
- widely recognised as an impressionist
- depicts the world of ballet
- Baudelaire wrote about him

Analysis:
- 1989 - 65x65cm
- girls getting ready to perform on the stage
- sketch of one single dancer’s movement united on the sheet
- richness of texture and colour combinations thanks to pastels
- innovative and unconventional viewpoint (higher)

Style:
- bright and various colours
- attracted by prose of life off-stage
- use of photoghraphy

Photography:
- plays a main role in his works
- preparatory studies
- Photographs are used while he paints
- every painting became a frame of the epitome of life

Aim:
Degas portraits reality. The essence of reality expressed in the painting gains a deep
meaning only if it is depicted as unrealistic (colours different than they actually are - used to
show the feelings of the artist)

Bibliography:
- pushkinmuseum.art
- nationalgallery.org.uk