Edgar Degas painted the impressionist piece The Dancing Class in 1871. The painting is oil on canvas that is approximately 85 X 75 cm. Edgar Degas was a French artist, acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure in motion. Degas worked in many mediums, preferring pastel to all others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and bronzes of ballerinas and of race horses.
Degas’ The Dancing Class is a work of art. Degas captures the ballet class on canvas just like a photogragh. It seems very real and delicate at the same time.
Degas’ piece belongs to the Impressionist period when the fleeting moment was caputured by many artists of the period. The art of Degas reflects a concern for the psychology of movement and expression and the harmony of line and contin
Degas observed the dancers and used cast members from the ballet to pose for his paintings. As the camara became popular he would position the dancers for his work and then photograph them, so the dancers would not have to hold difficult positions for a long time. Occasionally Degas would sketch a scene before painting it.
There are many great paintings to remind us that the artists of the Impressionist age were sensitively aware of contemporary life. Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas\'s pictures of the ballet and its dancers. The impulse towards painting the contemporary scene came to him not only from Courbet and Manet, but from his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the aesthetics of naturalism. Yet in the particular direction of his tastes and his concep
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