Dancer on Stage
One of the most famous paintings by Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas [French, 1834-1917. It captures dancing, a contemporary art, and exhibits dancers so vividly as if she is actually dancing. Edgar Degas began an increasing number of paintings on different poses of ballet dancers. And they were an immediate success.
Joris Karl Huysman, in one of his reviews of Degas's work, said at an exhibition in 1880,"When your eyes are trained on these leaping figures, the illusion becomes so complete that they all come to life and gasp for breath." Edgar Degas used shadow and light to create the illusion that the dancers are actually moving in the painting. The painting has the observer sitting in a box above the stage.
Degas not only captured/exhibited the dancer's view on the stage, but also exhibited what the life of a dancer on stage and what's happening in other wings of the stage. The painting clearly exhibits the other dancers waiting in the wings and a man dressed for the theatre who is perhaps a friend of the young Star.Edgar Degas concentrated on painting different poses of dancers and ballerinas in rehearsal, resting, on stage etc. He used a new method of art in 1978, where he would use pastel in order to render the vaporous quality in the paintings. In Dancers on Stage, Degas contrasts areas that have been quickly colored in, with others that are meticulously finished.
Some particularly light areas like the leg and neck of the dancer are balanced with darker areas, such as the man on the left and the dancer's ribbon. These are very minutely done with precision and create a fantastic reality that mimics the fantasy of the stage.In Dancers on Stage, the ballerina performs her"pas seul" as she leaps towards the orchestra pit with a non-chalence and that caused one critic to describe it as positively alarming, and that if he had been the conductor he would have been rushing to her aid. Degas captured the pure unadulterated joy of dance.
Dancer is so very engrossed in the dance, as if she has become the dance herself and there is nothing she would rather be doing. It makes us remember the moments of our life of being so much engrossed in an activity, that nothing else in the world even existed for us.
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