Edgar Degas Three dancers in an exercise hall“The ballerina series follows his earlier s
Edgar Degas Three dancers in an exercise hall “The ballerina series follows his earlier studies of both lower and middle class women, where he looked at the moment when they let their public face drop, and pretense gave way to an awareness of the reality of both themselves and their surrounding. With ballerinas he was primarily interested in the contrast between their beauty and grace on stage and the reality of the physical and physiological toil such artifice took on the performers. Of the more than 200 works, only 50 show the dancers performing on stage.” -- source link
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