Edgar Degas citáty

Edgar Degas, vlastným menom Hilaire Germain Edgar de Gas bol francúzsky maliar, grafik a sochár. Je považovaný za jedného z hlavných predstaviteľov impresionizmu.

Bol synom bankára talianskeho pôvodu a kreolky z New Orleansu v USA .

Začal študovať právo, no zakrátko v roku 1855 sa prihlásil na Akadémiu krásnych umení. Mal prirodzený zmysel pre pôvab, bol schopný kvalitne zvládnuť reprodukcie. Obdivoval taliansku renesanciu a Ingresa, s ktorým sa osobne poznal. Mal všetky predpoklady stať sa spoločensky uznávaným maliarom.

V roku 1859 odchádza na študijnú cestu, na tri roky, do Talianska. Počas pobytu vo Florencií, Neapole a Ríme namaľoval niekoľko portrétov.

V roku 1862 sa zoznámil s Edouardom Manetom a odvtedy prestáva maľovať klasické námety a inšpiruje sa reálnou skutočnosťou. Začína maľovať konské dostihy, hudobníkov a ženy. Po roku 1867 nasledujú typické obrazy z divadelného života, hlavne postavy tanečníc. Neskôr začína maľovať rozličné scény z prostredia veľkomesta . V 70. rokoch veľa cestoval. Navštívil Španielsko, Taliansko a v USA rodisko svojej matky New Orleans.

V tomto období prehĺbil styky s impresionistami, s ktorými často vystavoval.

Hoci impresionizmus bral s výhradami, namaľoval jeden z najslávnejších obrazov tohto hnutia - Absint z roku 1877. Ako model mu sedela herečka Ellen Andréová a grafik a milovník divadla Marcellin Desboutin. Absint sa stal ikonou - asi aj preto, že tento nápoj s mierne halucinogénnymi účinkami bol kultový v parížskej bohéme.

V osemdesiatych rokoch sa jeho tvorba sústreďuje zväčša iba na baletné scény a umývajúce sa ženy. V tomto období modeloval aj známe voskové plastiky tanečníc a aktov, odliate neskoršie do bronzu. Jeho aktivitu obmedzovala očná choroba, ktorá vyvrcholila okolo roku 1900, keď takmer oslepol.

Oproti obdivu impresionistov k voľnej prírode a slnečnému svetlu uprednostňoval Degas umelé svetlo divadelných rámp a lokálov. Bol jedným z prvých maliarov, ktorí umelecky znázornil efekty nového plynového osvetlenia. Jeho impresionistické poňatie prejavovalo sa skôr v atmosfére ako v technike, v podstate ostával na pozíciách realizmu. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. júl 1834 – 27. september 1917
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Edgar Degas: Citáty v angličtine

“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

“Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.”

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”

Quoted in Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century, ed. Robert Goldwater (Pantheon, 1945)
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“I should like to be famous and unknown.”

Je voudrais être illustre et inconnu.
Degas said this to Henri Rouart, as cited by Antoine Terrasse, in Degas (Chartwell Books, 1982)
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“Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.”

Quote in Degas' letter to the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartolomé, January 1886; as cited in 'Performing Fine Arts: Dance as a Source of Inspiration in Impressionism, by Johannis Tsoumas http://rupkatha.com/dance-in-impressionism/
1876 - 1895

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.”

quote from Georges Jeanniot, in Souvenirs sur Degas (Memories of Degas, 1933)
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“What a pity we allowed ourselves to be called Impressionists.”

Comme nous avons mal fait de nous laisser appeler Impressionistes.
Quoted by Walter Sickert in 'Post-Impressionists,' Fortnightly Review (January 1911)
1896 - 1917

“He [ Corot ] is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.”

Degas in 1883, as quoted by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 2
Degas made this remark about Corot to Pissarro at the preview exhibition of the 'Jules Paton sale' in Paris, 24 April 1883 and overheard by Corot's biographer Alfred Robaut https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Robaut.
1876 - 1895

“[make drawings of] series of instruments and players; their shapes, twisting of the hands, arms and neck of the violinist; for example, puffing out and hollowing of the cheeks of bassoonists, oboists, etc..”

Quote from Degas' Notebook (undated); as quoted in Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, Anne Distel, Michel Hoog, Charles S. Moffett, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, N.Y.) 1975, pp. 81-82
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“I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.”

Quote of Degas, as cited by Walter Sickert, in 'Post-Impressionism and Cubism', Pall Mall Gazette (1914-03-11).
According to Sickert, Degas had said this quote to him in 1885
1876 - 1895

“There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.”

Quoted by Daniel Halévy, Degas Parle (1960) [My Friend Degas, trans. and ed. Mina Curtiss, Wesleyan University Press, 1964], p. 119
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“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

“A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.”

Une peinture, c'est d'abord un produit de l'imagination de l'artiste, ce ne doit jamais être une copie. Si, ensuite, on peut y ajouter deux ou trois accents de nature, evidemment ca ne fait pas de mal.
Quoted by Maurice Sérullaz, L'univers de Degas (H. Scrépel, 1979), p. 13
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“If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.”

"Some of Degas' Views on Art" (p. 56)
Degas hated to paint outdoor and even to see landscape-paintings, like for instance the 'draughty' ones of Monet
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

“.. women… …their way of observing, combining, sensing the way they dress. They compare a thousand of more visible things with one another than a man does.”

Quote from The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 53
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“I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.”

"Technical Details" (p. 70)
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

“I put it [a still life of a pear, made by Manet there [on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter'], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.”

remark in a conversation with the writer Moore, ca. 1875; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 117
1855 - 1875

“I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.”

John Murray Gibbon, Pagan Love (1922), ch. xiv
Misattributed

“I will not admit that a woman can draw like that.”

Je n'admets pas qu'une femme puisse dessiner comme ca.
Quoted in Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932)
this quote is referring to some etchings by Cassatt, which Degas admired
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“You need the natural life; I, the artificial.”

À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.
Degas, quoted by George Moore, Impressions and Opinions (1891)
These words were spoken, Moore states, to 'a landscape painter'
1876 - 1895

“I remember a story my father used to tell. As he was coming home one day, he ran across a group of men who were firing on the troops from an ambush. During the excitement a daring onlooker went up to one of the snipers who seemed to be a poor marksman. He took the man's gun and brought down a soldier, then handed it back to its owner who motioned as if to say, 'No, go on. You're a better shot than I am.”

But the stranger said, 'No, I'm not interested in politics.'
Vollard, Degas and others were talking about the revolution of 1847. Somebody remarked to Degas that he must have been quite young at that time. Than Degas start to quote his father.
Zdroj: posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927), p. 40

“Draw all kind of everyday object placed, in such a way that they have in them the life of the man or woman – corsets that have just been removed, for example, and which retain the form of the body. Do a series in aquatint on mourning, different blacks – black veils of deep mourning floating on the face – black gloves – mourning carriages, undertaker’s vehicles – carriages like Venetian gondolas. On smoke – smoker’s smoke, pipes, cigarettes, cigars – smoke from locomotives, from tall factory chimneys, from steam boats, etc. On evening – infinite variety of subjects in cafes, different tones of glass robes reflected in the mirrors. On bakery, bread. Series of baker's boys, seen in the cellar itself or through the basement windows from the street – backs the colour of the pink flour – beautiful curves of dough – still-life's of different breads, large, oval, long, round, etc. Studies in color of the yellows, pinks, grays, whites of bread…… Neither monuments nor houses have ever been done from below, close up as they appear when you walk down the street. [a working note in which Degas planned series of views of modern Paris, the same time when he sketched the backstreet brothels, making graphic unflinching and even his realistic 'pornographic' sketches he called his 'glimpses through the keyhole', in which he also experimented with perspectives]”

Quote from Degas' Notebooks; Clarendon Press, Oxford 1976, nos 30 & 34 circa 1877; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 182
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