As well as young female dancers, Degas also enjoyed painting female nudes throughout his career, both as sketches and full Degas found these reasonably easy to sell in local galleries which ensured money for his career as he sought to expand his skills in future years. Degas is respected most for a long series of oil on canvas paintings about dancers in different poses and from different viewpoints. Edgar Degas himself preferred to be linked to the realism movement which included other artists like Gustave Caillebotte and he loved type of painting, with realistic finishes to the works and accurate colour schemes. Degas was an important part of the impressionist art movement which began around the mid to late 19th century, and he undeniably was that.
In his early thirties, Degas finally started to bring in the traditional methods of a history painter together with contemporary subject matter, and from this he became a classical painter of modern life with his own charming style. He was well trained and ready for this thanks to his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. Early in the career of Edgar Degas, the artist's ambition was to be a history painter, covering only historical subjects which interested him. There is a list towards the end which details his works in full.
The article below will covers Edgar Degas' oil paintings and discuss his extensive and successful achievements in full. Edgar Degas paintings are certainly classed as some of the most famous in French art, modern day and previous even to that.
In his early thirties, Degas finally started to bring in the traditional methods of a history painter together with contemporary subject matter, and from this he became a classical painter of modern life with his own charming style. He was well trained and ready for this thanks to his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. Early in the career of Edgar Degas, the artist's ambition was to be a history painter, covering only historical subjects which interested him. There is a list towards the end which details his works in full.
The article below will covers Edgar Degas' oil paintings and discuss his extensive and successful achievements in full. Edgar Degas paintings are certainly classed as some of the most famous in French art, modern day and previous even to that.
