Edgar Degas

was a French artist was famous because of his works in the painting, sculpture, print graphics and drawing. He is looked as one of the founders of the impressionism, although he rejected the concept and preferred it, realist to be called.

Edgar Degas was born on the 19th July, 1834 in a well-to-do banker's family in Paris. He started to paint quite early seriously. He studied in the École of the Beaux-Arts with Louis Lamothe. His academically training and thorough study of the classical art had prepared him for the historical painter career excellently. After 1865, under the influence of the impressionistic movement, he gave up academic subjects to turn to contemporary subjects and became a classical painter of the modern life.

Edgar Degas joined to a group of young artists, they planned to found an independent exhibitor's society. The result was the first one of the exhibits which became as impressionistic exhibits Labelled ones. Edgar Degas showed his work in all these exhibits except one.

Edgar Degas frequent identification as an impressionist, is an understandable, but insufficient description. The impressionism of Edgar Degas created in the 1860s and 1870s, partially been based on the realism of such painters like Courbet and Corot. The impressionists painted the realities of the world round them, bright, "shining" colours using, itself, primarily, on the effects of the light concentrating and hoped with it to show the directness of her scenes.

As opposed to the impressionists Edgar Degas preferred to work in the studio and was not interested in the study of the natural light which she fascinated. He was drawn by theatrical subjects and most of his works point racecourses, theatres, cafés, Varietees, or boudoir. A superior draftsman, he is drawn especially by the subject of the dance and more than half of his works shows dancers.

At the same time Edgar Degas began a hobby as a photographer, it using exactly to catch action for his pictures. He was a sharp observer of the humanity and in the untying of the movement. His portraits as well as his studies of dancers, milliners and laundry channels cultivated the whole objectivity of eingegefangener subjects and returns them of course and spontaneously.

Nevertheless, Edgar Degas is closer to the impressionism than any other movement: His scenes of the Paris life, his external centre compositions, his experiments with colour and form and his friendship with several impressionistic key artists, mostly in particular with Mary Cassatt and Edouard Manet, connect him intimate with the impressionistic movement.

In the 1880s when his vision decreased Edgar Degas began increasingly to work in the sculpture and the pastel. Edgar Degas was not known to the general public far away and his true artistic size became not evident up to his death. Edgar Degas died on the 27th September, 1917 in Paris.