1. Edgar Degas: Last Academic or First Modernist
This short note addresses the question whether Degas should be considered the last of the academics or the first of the modernists. ... The first painting that struck me with its modernist features is "The Laundress", which he painted between 1884 and 1886, and is now kept at the Musee D"Orsay, Paris. ... The first thing that catches your eyes is the contrast between the two women, the first one yawning and the second one pressing clothes. ... From the lectures and the book I read I could learn about Degas both as an artist and a person, and I could learn how he fit within the evolving Parisia...
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