Degas’ masterpiece The Dance Class shatters the traditional impression of ballet dancers and exposes the truth behind the curtains of the 19th-century Parisian stage.It gives an insight into the ...

Degas and the Dance: The Painter and the Petits Rats, Perfecting Their Art Susan Goldman Rubin. ABRAMS, $19.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-8109-0567-2 ...

Not that they were that similar as artists. Where most of the impressionist group – whose exhibitions Degas showed in from their beginning in 1874 to their last in 1882 – were concerned with ...

The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse), 1873–1876, oil on canvas, by Edgar Degas Wikimedia Commons “Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian ...

Degas’s dancers mesmerise for the same reason as ballet itself. They draw you in from a distance, promising sheer aesthetic pleasure: pastel tutus, pretty girls. Once you’re there, you look ...

Degas’s paintings of ballerinas often reference a darker side of the dance industry in the late 19th century, when ballet’s popularity was beginning to fade and many dancers from lower-class ...