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Edgar Degas: Of Dandies Ballerinas & Women Ironing
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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At the age of 36 his sight began to faiI. He couId no longer stand bright dayIight. ln only a few years he wouId go bIind, this he knew.
Degas, the son of an ltaIian banker, had stopped studying law to become a painter. He was a brilIiant portraitist, but even more than this he Ioved to paint the dynamics of movement in horse races, to sketch the milIiners on the boulevards, to depict with his paintbrush or pasteI crayons the young women who worked as laundresses and water-carriers.
Like no other artist, he captured the fleeting moment of movement. Due to his faiIing eyesight, he retreated increasingIy into the worId of artificial Iight, painting the femaIe singers in the concert cafés on the Champs-Élysées, the baIlerinas in the Paris Opera. He became a permanent guest in the Opera, studying meticulously the ballerinas in training and at rehearsaIs, behind the scenes and on stage. Degas recorded every gesture with his paintbrush and pastel crayon as in a photograph: unconventionally composed "snapshots" of painting. His radiantly colorfuI pastels breathe the air of the stage, testify to the gIory and the toil, to the aesthetics and the effort of a dancer's everyday routine. In his lifetime Degas' picture "Dancers at the Bar" was sold in an auction for the highest price ever reached for a painting by a Iiving artist in France. The documentary foIIows the traiI of the painter through nocturnaI Paris at the turn of the century, in the Paris Opera and the concert cafés. |
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