Ballet Studio
Closer interior view
Edgar Degas July 19, 1834-1917
“A dancer’s work is all plie”
Degas shared the Impressionists’ use of light, clear colors, and their rapid-brushstroke techniques. He gave his work a vivid, dramatic quality, even though he painted in the studio from memory, instead of on the scene, as Monet and Renoir did. In studies of ballet dancers, racehorses, and the circus, Degas explored the life 19th century Paris.
Can you find?
-Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen (1880) sculpture by Degas
-Red Shoes, tale by Hans Christian Andersen; and 1948 movie, starring Moira
Shearer, music by Brian Easdale
-Nutcracker, music by Tchaikovsky; first performed in St. Petersburg 1892,London 1934, New York 1940
-Two Dancers on the Stage (1874) by Degas
-Three tutus
-Odette, the white swan, from Swan Lake, music by Tchaikovsky; First performed by the Bolshoi 1877, St. Petersburg 1895, Prague 1907, New York 1911, London 1934
“A dancer’s work is all plie”
Degas shared the Impressionists’ use of light, clear colors, and their rapid-brushstroke techniques. He gave his work a vivid, dramatic quality, even though he painted in the studio from memory, instead of on the scene, as Monet and Renoir did. In studies of ballet dancers, racehorses, and the circus, Degas explored the life 19th century Paris.
Can you find?
-Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen (1880) sculpture by Degas
-Red Shoes, tale by Hans Christian Andersen; and 1948 movie, starring Moira
Shearer, music by Brian Easdale
-Nutcracker, music by Tchaikovsky; first performed in St. Petersburg 1892,London 1934, New York 1940
-Two Dancers on the Stage (1874) by Degas
-Three tutus
-Odette, the white swan, from Swan Lake, music by Tchaikovsky; First performed by the Bolshoi 1877, St. Petersburg 1895, Prague 1907, New York 1911, London 1934