ballerinas adjusting their tutus edgar degas

ballerinas adjusting their tutus edgar degasIn his early years in the 1860s, Edgar Degas made the Paris Opera the main subject of his work. He explored its various moments and spaces: the regular training sessions, the backstage and the stage. Here, the artist masters elliptical shortcuts and the practice of close ups. He knows how to synthesize a series of movements, suggested by a drawing more and more cursive which confers to the painting a surprising expressive value. Enjoying ballet, Degas

because he felt that he could avoid going mad by continuing to paint

from a material point of view

This harmony is found in the symmetrical construction of this pointillist work

Monet was especially interested in the work of reflections of the snow

In this pointillist work by Georges Seurat

His virtuoso drawing was combined with a stylized planar abbreviation and intense colors

the forms are marked with a black ring characteristic of Hokusai's style

It creates a contrasted relationship with the geometrical multicolor elements and abstraction

This impressionnist painting is singular in the preponderant role that the artist gives to the figure in the landscape

With his features drawn

This work is thus a paradoxically realistic representation of the balance within a couple

depicting the water lily pond in the artist's flower garden at Giverny