One of a series of photographs of the justly famous Degas bronze of a tiny ballerina in the National Gallery of Art in Washington taken in 2004. To me, at least, she appeared to be observing the observers, with her penetrating gaze, and clasped hands behind her back.
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Yes, Degas is one of the most under-rated of the modernist giants! And his bronzes are his masterworks, for me, the subtlty of jesture and relaxed and yet tense stances of these figures is quite astounding and in the National Gallery of Art in Washington she stands traped in her perspex boxes, as in... |
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If Degas did nothing but paint, it would have been enough. And if he'd done nothing but sculpt, it would have been enough. And if he was only his pastel work, it would have been enough. Another mind-boggling under-rated visual artist, IMO. Lee |
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