Edgar Degas Essays (142 words) - Antisemitism In France, Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas Edgar Degas was born on July 19, 1834 in Paris and died on September 26, 1917. Degas was part of the Impressionism period. Degas was the son of a wealthy banker, and his aristocratic background instilled into his art a haughty, yet sensitive quality of detachment. In the early 1840's, the female ballet dancer became his favorite scene. He sketched from live models in his studio. Alot of the ballet dancers in his paintings where usually either on the stage, entering the stage, or resting and getting ready to perform. His paintings were mostly from an oblique angle of vision. After Degas eyesight slowly failed and he went blind he turned thereafter to sculptures, and modeling figures and horses out of wax. These sculptures remained in disrepair in his studio, and were only cast in bronze, after his death. Arts Essays