Café Concert Rehearsal

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Café Concert Rehearsal

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Edgar Degas

French Photographer · 1834–1917

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> No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament . . . I know nothing. > > --Edgar Germaine Hilaire Degas From a wealthy Parisian family, Degas devoted himself exclusively to painting without needing to sell a canvas. His training was conventional: he spent five years in Italy, studied the O

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In a quick sketch of a rehearsing singer, Edgar Degas managed to give the scene an air of comic menace, suggesting a slight undercurrent of tension by both the placement on the page and the figures' specific gestures. Towering over the much smaller male figure, the singer fills the center of the page as she advances forward, eyes focused on her prey, who is pushed into the corner of the page. Slumped deep into his armchair, the man's position could suggest either complete relaxation or abject fear; his head tilts back, his arms grip the armrests of the chair, and his legs sprawl out in front. Degas was fascinated by the countless gestures that revealed his subjects' social class and work. He made art from modern subjects that only genre painters had fully used before: the tension between a man and a woman and the suggestion of violence and domination in a relationship.

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Artist/Maker
Edgar Degas
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108E1G
Date
about 1877
Culture
French
Object Type
Drawing

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Object Type
Drawing
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Creator
Edgar Degas
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Culture
French
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Drawings
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
about 1877
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1877
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1877
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