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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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“Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…”

Quote from Degas' Notebook of 1869; as quoted in Impressionism and Post Impressionism 1874 – 1904, 'Sources and Documents', Linda Nochlin, Englewood Cliffs, New Yersey, 1966, p. 62
1855 - 1875

“I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.”

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. 4
note 5: 20 June 1887, - Corot’s biographer Alfred Robaut https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Robaut told this story (1905. Vol. 1. P. 336)
1876 - 1895

“You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.”

Il faut avoir une haute idée, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.
"Mad About Drawing" (p. 64)
posthumous quotes, Degas Dance Drawing' (1935)

“I really have some luggage in my head. If only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things here, there's a bale I should insure at once.”

J'ai vraiment, un vrai bagage dans la tête. S'il y avait pour cela, comme il y a partout ici, des compagnies d'assurance, voilà un ballot je ferais assurer de suite.
Quote from a letter to James Tissot, (New Orleans, 1873), as cited in Marilyn Brown, Degas and the Business of Art: A Cotton Office in New Orleans (Penn State Press, 1994)
1855 - 1875

“Drawing is not the same as form; it is a way of seeing form.”

Le dessin n'est pas la forme, il est la manière de voir la forme.
"Drawing Is Not the Same As Form..." (p. 82)
posthumous quotes, Degas Dance Drawing' (1935)

“Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.”

Quoted by Julian Barnes, 'The Artist As Voyeur' (1996), from The Grove Book of Art Writing, ed. Martin Gayford and Karen Wright (Grove Press, 2000)
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“What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.”

Quoted in Degas' letter to Daniel Halévy, 31 Jan 1892, from Degas Letters, ed. Marcel Guerin, trans. Marguerite Kay (1947)
1876 - 1895

“The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.”

Quote from History of Impressionism, Rev. ed. John Rewald, Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 89
posthumous quotes, Degas Dance Drawing' (1935)

“It is all well and good to copy what one sees, but it is much better to draw only what remains in one's memory. This is a transformation in which imagination and memory collaborate.”

Quote of Degas in 1883, as cited by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 30 note 10
Degas confided this to Pierre-George Jeanniot
1876 - 1895

“You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.”

a remark to E. Rouart [son of Henri Rouart in 1904; as quoted in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 274
1896 - 1917

“We were created to look at one another, weren't we.”

Quote of Degas, as cited in Walter Sickert The Complete writing on art ed Anna Robins OUP, Oxford 2002 ISBN 0199261695
quotes, undated

“Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.”

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

“It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary.”

C'est très bien de copier ce qu'on voit, c'est beaucoup mieux de dessiner ce que l'on ne voit plus que dans son mémoire. C'est une transformation pendant laquelle l'ingéniosité collabore avec la mémoire. Vous ne reproduisez que ce qui vous a frappé, c'est-à-dire le nécessaire.
Quoted in Maurice Sérullaz, L'univers de Degas (H. Scrépel, 1979), p. 13
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“A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.”

"Recollections of Degas by Berthe Morisot" (p. 84)
posthumous quotes, Degas Dance Drawing' (1935)

“Anyone would think paintings were made like speculations on the stock market, out of the frictions of ambitious young people… …it sharpens the mind, but clouds your judgement.”

Quote from The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 34
quotes, undated

“Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.”

Notebook entry (1858), The Notebooks of Edgar Degas, ed. Theodore Reff (1976)
1855 - 1875