Prima ballerina painting abstract
Famous ballerina painting!
Edgar Degas’ Most Graceful Depictions of the Paris Opera Ballet
In Paris, especially from 1860 through 1870, women were everything.
Prima ballerina painting abstract
With the scandalous exposition of Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass at the Salon des Refusés, French art officially began to move away from neoclassical, mythological goddesses. Instead, artists became fascinated with the modern Parisian woman in local settings.
Aside from the courtesans of the time, no Parisian woman was more documented in French art, literature, and music than the Paris Opera ballerina. The ballerinas even became the primary focus of a prolific painter: Edgar Degas.
Edgar Degas did not consider himself an Impressionist painter, preferring to call himself a “realist.” However, the graceful lines and soft colors of the ballet dancers were the perfect subjects for Impressionism.
Over time, Degas and his dancers at the Paris Opera Ballet would generate some of the most elegant and famous artworks in history.