Edgar Degas. Portraits

The album presents 22 portraits of the impressionist artist Edgar Degas, one of the founders of this current in the art of the late XIX - early twentieth centuries.
Edgar Degas - one of the French artists (Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Camille Piscarro, Alfred Sisley and some others), with the names of which are associated with an unconventional direction for painting of the 19th century - impressionism. Edgar Degas, who had an independent nature, always kept at some distance from the "associates". He was never attracted to work on the open air, he rarely wrote landscapes, focusing mainly on fixing the instant position of the human figure in the process of its movement. This was the main essence of the impressionism of Edgar Deg.
He was born in Paris in the family of a widely erudite large banker. Having received an excellent general education, at the age of 19, the young man entered the law faculty of Paris University. However, on the way to, perhaps a very successful career of a jurist, a love of drawing and painting stood up. It leaves the university and is completely given to the visual art.
The first successes come to a novice artist in the genre of portrait. These are images of people close to him, which allowed one of the friends from the script to jokingly say that Degas "is on the path of the artist of high society." No. Edgar is interested in people of the widest social layers. In the early 1860s, Degas performs several portraits of Eduar Manet - between artists establish even, respectful relations based on many points of contact in views on fine art. Subsequent years are the time of the mature of Degas -artist. As a portrait, he creates a number of works that will bring him fame. They strive for objectivity and originality: for example, the “Bellelli family” or "Square of Consonate (Viscount Lepik and his daughter, crossing the Consent)", where Viscount Lepik with her daughters and a dog, as well as a friend of Degas, is represented in the group portrait. . Gatery. Degas strove for softness in color transmission, for the elegance of the general system of the picture. This is exactly what the audience appears to the audience with the dignity and attention depicted on the "portrait of the girl" (1867) Objectively, one of the best is the picture of the artist "Absent" (1873) - a double portrait of the artist"s friends, which at one time caused numerous disputes of critics. A woman and a man, not from life, are far from high society, Degas eccentricly placed to the edge of the picture, as if plunging us, spectators, into the space of unfriendly, and for someone, possibly, the desired cafe.
The artist left the descendants of several thousand paintings, pastels, drawings. By the end of his life, Degas practically lost his vision. And then his fingers became his eyes, thanks to which he did not part with his characters, creating small sculptures of a female naked body, ballerinas, zhokeev, horses