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Edgar Degas
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas was born on 19th of July, 1834 into the higher echelons of Parisian society. Unlike Manet, Degas did not have to fight his parents to become an artist. Amongst the Degas’ friends were several eminently wealthy art collectors and government officials who encouraged Edgar, already self-taught, by allowing him to study and copy their art treasures. By the time he was eighteen Degas had also obtained permission to copy at the Louvre. ... By the early 1870s Degas had emerged from his deep and intensive involvement in the past and its forms and, following the example of Manet, he was beginning to apply himself to painting the world of modern Paris, in particular its people in motion (Barnes&Noble, 174)
The Impressionists did not choose their name – it was foisted upon them in 1874 by a critic hostile to their work. ... Unlike the Impressionists with whom Degas was to be deeply involved, he had shown little interest in landscape. Degas approached his involvement with the Impressionists from the point of view of a Realist and saw the first Impressionist exhibition in the rue des Capucines as an opportunity to promote what he called “a Salon of Realists”. Thus Degas and Manet, by virtue of their age and status, were wrongly thought to be leaders of the Impressionist movement, when the titles have been awarded to Monet and Pissarro. ...
Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Monet, Bazille, and Morisot were all born between 1830 and 1841 into a France whose recent history had been as dramatic and changeable as the era the painters were to live through.
Approximate Word count = 1242
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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