Edgar Degas

By ya gurlz anna and brooke

Artistic Style and Historical Importance

• sought to capture fleeting moments in the flow of modern life• Prefered theater and café scenes with artificial light rather than plain air

andscapes• Early paintings were static, and frieze-like• Depicted young girls with snub noses and immature bodies• little in common with Monet and the other landscape painters, whom he

mocked for painting outdoors. Conservative in his social attitudes, he abhorred the scandal created by the exhibitions, as well as the publicity and advertising that his colleagues sought. He bitterly rejected the label Impressionist that the press had created and popularized, and his insistence on including such comparatively traditional artists as Jean-Louis Forain and Jean-François Raffaëlli in their exhibitions created rancor within the group, contributing to their eventual disbanding in 1886.

The Rehearsal on Stage

• The delicate, weightlessness is different from the people on the left the relaxed figures to the left. The painting is thin, and appears almost transparent over time. Parts of the painting have been touched up. Near the man that is seated, another peron is collapsed in a chair.

L'Absinthe

• At a Café, two people sit side by side. The colors in this painting show sad and emptiness, it also shows the danger of absinthe, a liquor that was later outlawed.

QUIZZZ

• What’s the contrast in The rehearsal on Stage?• How were his early panting's shown?• What kind of scenes did he like to depict?• What do the colors show in L’Absinthe?• What is shown in L’Absinthe that was later

outlawed?