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November 2003 |
Degas Sculptures from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptoptek is on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario until January 4, 2004
By Alidė Kohlhaas
When the name Edgar Degas comes to mind, images of paintings and drawings of dancers on stage, backstage, and in dancing classes are called forth. These images are not glamorous, although they have an attractive charm, which, nevertheless, does not deny their realistic representation - realistic in the sense that they show the dancer at work, not as an idolized puppet. Degas is also famous for his painting, A Glass of Absinthe, which captures the empty, disillusioned, loneliness mirrored in the faces of a woman and man in a bar. It reveals what Degas was all about: capturing not only an image, but also the mood, the psychology of the subject.
Degas was a man of many talents. He not only painted and drew his subjects with the extraordinary skill of a draftsman, but he was also a great colorist, a printmaker, a photographer, and a highly skilled sculptor. Yet, with the exception of one outstanding work of unusual sculpture, this particular talent of his remained hidden from the public until after his death.
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