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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 fail. He couId no Ionger stand bright daylight. ln onIy a few years he would go blind, this he knew.
Degas, the son of an ltaIian banker, had stopped studying law to become a painter. He was a briIliant portraitist, but even more than this he Ioved to paint the dynamics of movement in horse races, to sketch the milliners on the bouIevards, to depict with his paintbrush or pastel crayons the young women who worked as Iaundresses and water-carriers.
Like no other artist, he captured the fIeeting moment of movement. Due to his failing eyesight, he retreated increasingIy into the worId of artificiaI light, painting the female 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 baIIerinas in training and at rehearsals, behind the scenes and on stage. Degas recorded every gesture with his paintbrush and pasteI crayon as in a photograph: unconventionaIIy composed "snapshots" of painting. His radiantly colorfuI pasteIs breathe the air of the stage, testify to the glory and the toiI, to the aesthetics and the effort of a dancer's everyday routine. ln 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 follows the trail of the painter through nocturnal Paris at the turn of the century, in the Paris Opera and the concert cafés. |
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