Edgar+Degas+Student


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[] Without research of Degas: In this painting the theme seems to be ballet. The mood seems to be relaxed and graceful, because of how he puts the girls in natural positions and he used colors like white for the dresses with a light pink for the tights, and cream and golden browns for the walls and ceiling, which creates a graceful relaxed kind of peaceful feeling. and his brushstrokes seems to be smooth and not choppy. I like this piece because its so graceful and it just seems pure the way its relaxed and bathed in white.

With research of degas' life: ====Edgar degas grew up in a good financial situation, his parents were able to send him to a really good boys school for his education, his parents also loved music... so he was familiar with the "arts" so to speak, like art music drama and others like that. this probably explains why he uses more relaxed and a more happier mood in his paintings.... especially in this one, where its more of a high class dance studio expressed in the painting since he himself did not face financial hardships, although his mother died when he was 13 he still uses more up beet moods in his paintings, in fact it was his father who helped Edgar create his passion for art... Edgar had always liked art but by being sent to a school to study art he soon became in love the some work of the artists he was researching on, which included Giotto, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Venci, Titan, Sir Anthony Van Dyke, and Frans Sniders. Edgar used to do historical paintings but then abandoned that style and then started to do impressionism..... which is shown in this painting..... he liked to paint people in person and at the scene but instead of portraits he painted people mostly women in natural positions. the theme still seems to be relaxed and peaceful even with the background knowledge==== of Edgar's life. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Edgar-Degas

Picture 2:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/18951?search_no=10&index=91

Observation without research: the theme in this painting also seems to be ballet. and the mood in also a relaxed kind of mood because of the natural position of the girls.... but the color scheme has changed to more of a green color. Degas's brush strokes seems to be a little more sloppy or kind of random in this painting but are also really smooth. Degas's style seems to be painting people in more relaxed positions and not so much as portraits he also seems to paint more women then men and his paintings are also more of ballerinas. this painting is also painted in a grey background towards the bottom of the painting but is still expressing a relaxed mood. I like this piece because of the difference in color from the last one and the ballerinas are preparing themselves for the performance they are about to perform and are all doing something different.

Observation with research: Edgar was basically painting what he saw, with the ballerinas ready to go onstage with the scene that was painted in the background to create the story the ballerinas were supposed to dance to. they are wearing the their dresses and are readying themselves for the performance and Edgar made sure to capture them in their natural positions creating a graceful and peaceful mood and theme, his style being impressionism.

Picture 3: http://www.artcyclopedia.org/art/thumbs/edgar-degas-ballet-thumb.jpg Observation without research: this painting is unlike the others, Degas instead of expressing a relaxed, graceful mood has set a more enthusiastic mood were the ballerinas have preformed onstage and and are in action... the color scheme is also a lot different using more grey in the background and darker browns and blacks. although the ballerinas are wearing blues and bright orange. the ballerina in the front is bowing and smiling expressing a happier type mood and the theme still seems to be ballet. although Degas's brush strokes are getting a little sloppy and more abundant, yet compared to Van Gogh he is still painting in smoother strokes... just getting choppier. I like this painting because of the pop of color the bowing ballerina gives to the piece and how Edgar included someone from the audience.

Observations with research: Edgar Degas' life was happy and a good one as he learned about his favorite artist only to become one of the greats himself, using impressionism as his theme in this painting and capturing the ballerinas in their natural positions as they perform onstage with a smile on their face, he also included a women in the audience who seemed to be enjoying the performance, creating a happy and energetic mood to the painting.

Picture 4:

http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media/42/134442-004-40D8276F.jpg Observation without research: this artwork is different from the others that i have looked at because the theme does not revolve around ballet but instead is about this french women sitting at a table with beautiful flowers.she is very relaxed as she rests her arm on the table and looks at something outside of the painting. he also sets a patient kind of peaceful mood in the painting because of how the the women seems to be waiting in anticipation for something but waits in a very relaxed position. Edgar also uses a lot more colors in this painting with the pop of color that the flowers add to the art work. his brush strokes like in the other paintings are smooth yet a little sloppy, like kind of random like the others. his style seems to be more of capturing women in natural positions and unlike in portraits are doing their own thing. he also paints with the same kind of brush strokes for the most part. I love this piece because its not about ballet and focuses on a women waiting at a table in a restaurant, and i absolutely love the flowers front and center of the painting bringing lots of colors

Observation with research: Edgar Degas was led to art by his father who thought that his son would love art, so he was sent to school were he learned about his favorite artist and then became an artist himself, first painting historical paintings and then changed his theme to impressionism( painting the piece of artwork at the scene of where the artwork takes place), Edgar used this style in this painting to capture the women's posture in a relaxed position and capturing how she seems to be patiently waiting for someone, creating a peaceful laid back mood, and since his life was pretty relaxed it's self seems like a great mood for him to create in the painting.

Picture 5:

http://www.edgar-degas.net/images/paintings/the-millinery-shop.jpg

Observations without research: the theme in this picture seems to be about this Women who seems to make womens' hats for a living, Degas created a calm mood by how the women is ounce again in a natural position as she works on a hat... just completely engaged in her work so in a way the mood is also very determined and intent because of how focused the women is on her work, but since she captured in a relaxed position the mood is intent and calm. there is a lot of color in the artwork as well, with the hats giving a few pops of color and how the blue background, the red desk, and the orange floor diverse from each other, making this piece really nice to look at... and his brushstrokes are ounce again smooth and not choppy. I love this piece because of how the women is working and is focused on working and yet the painting still brings the calm relaxed mood Edgar loves to create.

Observations with research: Edgar ounce again is using his style of impressionism in this painting. he makes sure to put the women in a natural position. and he keeps his theme going of painting women in natural places and positions and keeps calm and relaxing moods going throughout his paintings, and his life was also relaxing and calm as he was sent to great school and lived in a good financial situation and I'm not surprised that he paints this way.

Picture 6: http://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/edgar-degas/the-green-dancer-1879.jpg

Observations without research: this painting's theme is ballet and the mood is just interactive and full of movement and emotion, its happy and graceful but full of energy because of how the main ballerina is positioned in this ballet dance move and the way he used so much color and bright pops of color brings a happy mood. his brush strokes are random but smooth also adding to this happy energetic mood and i love how this painting shows how the ballerinas are focused on their performance but happy about it and are having fun i also love the blue and orange colors that completely pull the piece together and he still puts the girls in natural positions and yet i like how he only has half of a few dancing ballerinas because it gives the painting that energetic feel having them in different positions.

Observations with research: in this painting Edgar still uses the style of impressionism and still has a great theme of ballet that he uses in lots of his paintings, yet i like this painting especially because of the way he positioned his dancers in different positions and how they are all doing a different move at different times and i think this is like Edgar's life in school and the way he used different ways of art before he finally chose impressionism and how he tried out different kinds of paints and materials before he found his style and how he then "preformed" them and he became this great artist creating his individual and unique art, just like how these dancers found their style of dance in ballet and them preformed them using different moves. and his life was happy and so is the mood of this painting.