... Le Champ de courses, jockeys amateurs près d'une voiture", he depicts the exciting moments right before the beginning of a race. This is undoubtedly a great example of impressionist artwork, whether it be the nouvaux subject matter or the colors and styles of brushstroke used, the elements are all in place to create an impressionistic masterpiece. Before Degas began his seeming obsession with ... pretty clothes". Never the less the horse races and the ballerinas were his way of expressing modern life/everyday life, and important characteristic of impressionist artwork. Impressionists em...

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