Biography
Perfectionist, gaining in works before disarming harmony of forms and colors, Iller-Germain-Edgar de Ga is known to the world as a bright representative of the Impressionism. The weight loss and the grace, which he was the world through the canvas, in reality it is impossible to conclude in the framework of one particular direction.Childhood and youth
The future artist was born on July 19, 1834 in the family of a successful banker. Father Ogosso de Ga was the organizer of the Neapolitan trading house. Mother Celestina Musion was a cotton exchange broker's daughter.
The head of the family contained his wife and children, and Celestine, as the keeper of a homely focus, supported comfort and order in the house. Mother died suddenly when the boy was not 13 years old.
Edgar Ros to a kid: He became interested in Latin and history. After graduating from Ludwig Great Lyceum in 1852, the young man enters the University of Paris at the Faculty of Law. However, the young man understands that jurisprudence is not him.
Augusteo wanted the elder son to receive education and went to his footsteps inheriting a family business further. Having learned about the sown's intention to quit the university, he decides not to be bought over his son, providing Edgar's choice.
Having received the blessing of the Father, in 1855 the young man enters the school of graceful arts, where the mentor Lammott puts the young man for the leader of European Academism Zh.D. Engra.
Edgar was lucky to be born in the family of aristocrats. The guy never experienced difficulties associated with a lack of money. While other novice artists fought with hunger and looked at tomorrow, the young man in 1856 decides to leave their studies and leaves for 2 years to Spain.
There, a young man is studying the main cultural centers of the country - Florence, Naples, Rome, is inspired by the paintings of the Masters of the Renaissance era.
The enveloped young man in return to Paris opens the workshop, creating a number of works on historical stories.
Edgar boldly refuses to idealize antique life, showing which it could be in modern interpretation. Despite the titanic efforts and a huge desire, within the framework of its work, unites the antiquity and the modernity of the degi did not come out.
Acquaintance with Edward Manne, which happened in 1862, turned the life of a degiousness to his head. The artist became a frequenter of a cozy cafe "Gerbua". There, ambitious impressionists discussed the concepts of new plots in painting and their own vision of reality.
Under the influence of these people at the end of 1860, a series of large works is created - "Bratka", "racing", "ballet scenes" and "modists". The main task of the artist is to show the inner world of the hero, in the view, in the movement of the hand, in turning the head to the fullest can be able to reveal the person. The degi was very different from impressionists, he perceived the world around him like a dynamic element of being, not trying to make inspiration drops and drops. The ideal Edgar saw in the cluster life of the metropolis. Photographic memory helped to march the most minor features of Paris.
In the future, these memories helped to transfer city life rhythm, creating detailed images of people, places and events.
Material welfare allowed Edgar to stay in the eternal quest for himself. The painter violated the canons, experimented with light, shape, mocked above the composition - in general, did everything possible and impossible that the new vision makes the effect of freshness of work.
As a result of creative wardings, the Creator managed to achieve the exact weighborhood of the compositional structure of the canvas, in which there was nothing more than anything. All elements emphasized the meaning of the plot.
Painting
Ballet was a favorite theme of the Master of Impressionism. The popularity of ballet scenes, captured degas, is easy to explain: the artist masterfully shows the world of beauty and grace, without overloading the paintings of excessive sentimentality.
The topic of the ballet appears in the work of many artists. For writing paintings, everything as one used the services of eminent simulators. The game of black and specially selected for the portrait of the posture - these nuances were deprived of the linen of the soul. Degi first dared to show the work of workers scene without embellishment.
The painting "Blue dancers" is written by his beloved Pastel artist. Four ballerinas in blue ballet packs in anticipation of the outlet to the scene do not find themselves. Every day they play roles and worry every day, as before the debut. Looking at them, the viewer involuntarily comongs to heroines, feeling the same mutrge. The asymmetry of the composition and uneven edges of the edges speaks of the enthusiasm of the artist of photography
In addition to the ballet, the painter was fond of horses. These graceful animals won the love of the Creator when he was in Italy. Degas was a fan of traditional Roman races. The artist attracted the natural plastic of horses, and the professional gestures of the riders called in the artist genuine delight.
The first picture of the "jump" cycle appears in 1860 and is called "Gentlemen on jumps: before starting". This canvas is a copy of the style and character of the artist.
Fuzzy, blurry riders are lost on the background of a flat landscape. Degi rewrites this work after 20 years. In the late version, endless hills and factories became the background.
The work of Edgar Dega "Absinthe", raising the problem of alcoholism, fully reflects the morals of the Paris Bohemia of the time. The feeling of loneliness is better to experience together. Loss of hope - that's what unites these distant and at the same time close people. Flier color flavor strengthens the feeling of insignificant of their own being.
Increase the reality of the painter did not want, providing the viewer with the opportunity to see the realities that they surround it.
One of the fundamental works of the 19th century is the "Consent Square". At some point, the Master did not have money left and he had to take for the work of any plan. The master was forced to portray the viscont family, and then sell the cloth to him. It helped the artist to help out the amount of money necessary for life. In the property L. Lepika Painting was for a long time. Nothing was known about her fate until the beginning of the 20th century.
After the time, the "Square of Concord" was discovered in the meeting of the famous art gallery owner P. Durana-Rueel. However, the lower part of the work was cut off. It was she who contained an artist's autograph. The lack of signature complicated the definition of the author. After a long futile attempt, the masterpiece finally acquired German O. Gershendberg.
The plot of work is proseted. Despite imaginary calm the pallor of the paints and the smoothness of the lines, the thought does not lie on the surface. Children and adults are looking at different directions in the picture. There is an eternal conflict of fathers and children. The reflected difference in the views and worldview of generations, as if in a mockery, is called "Consent Square".
Degas knew how to surprise the viewer, forcing the hero shown on the canvas. "Gladilsman" did not exception. A worker with a bottle of wine is exhausted from boredom and monotony, has become a symbol of worm of the beginning of the twentieth century.
Immediateness of the second woman is immediately striking. She does not stroit - she rolls down. She does not have any strength, no desire even to lift his head. After all, there are still the same despair and piles of linen. Maestro Impressionism allows people to see Paris under a different angle.
"Book" are harsh and realistic. The Great Master with a sense of deep humanism belonged to a labor man.
In the painting "Dance Class" of the degius phenomenally combines the accurate drawing with the detail sketch. The artist focuses on the expressions of the dancers. The picture immerses the atmosphere of an exciting anticipation. For the student, this is a tomitious wait, for the elderly balletmaster - the palette of new ideas. But in the born ballerinas there is no time for extraneous thoughts - they live dance, and the second inaction as death. The classic color scheme gives the canvas of academicity, but the energy of indifferent movement in space returns the viewer to the world of impressionism.
Personal life
People who do not know the biography of Degas have fluently familiarize himself with his work, consider that Edgar was not hung with love intrigues with simulars. On the canvases of the Colorist often appeared images of naked women, but it is reliably known that the Madre did not have close relationship with one of the music.
The amateur of wide-eye hats with eyes reflecting the sadness of the whole world, preferred proud loneliness to noisy companies. An unlike artist did not transfer increased attention to his person.
Because of such a suspended lifestyle and habits, the friends and native affectionately called him a "bear broken."
Being a freedom-loving person, the painter has negatively treated the Institute of Marriage. According to biographers, the melancholic perfectionist did not need physical proximity. The sculptor loved his eyes and enjoyed the contemplation of the female body.
Repeatedly posing painting Suzanna Valadon declared: Degas constantly made the compliments of her appearance, but physical contact was impossible. The genius impressionism believed that the woman was not created for love, but for inspiration. The admiration was solely spiritual.
It is noteworthy that even after the publication of a series of work "Scenes in closed houses", devoted to easily accessible women, no one even doubted the imperfection of Matra.
The only acceptable state of the soul of the Creator is loneliness. He he consciously chose him as a faithful satellite of life.
Death
Infinitely sad was the last years of the life of Degas. The blind genius, aimlessly wanted through the streets of Paris, absorbed the hortmost pessimism. He was indescribable hurt from the fact that he is no longer able to contemplate life, the movement of which he imprinted his magic brush.
The painter died in Paris on September 26, 1917.
To say goodbye to his friend came his buddies: Claude Monet and artist Jean-Louis Forene.
It is known that the degi does not endure the chatter. Therefore, in lifetime, she asked forna to abandon mourning speech and finish a simple uncomplicated phrase:
"He, as well as I, loved to draw."Work
- "Etude Hands" (1860)
- "Start of hunting" (1863-1865)
- "Riders on the road" (1864-1868)
- Interior (Violence) (1868-1869)
- "Coast in Ebbe" (1869-1870)
- "Dance Class" (1871-1874)
- "Consent Square" (1875)
- "In the cafe" (absinthe) (1876)
- "Woman behind the toilet" (1876-1877)
- "Diego Martelley" (1879)
- "Opera Lodge" (1880)
- "Faces of criminals" (1881)
- "Gladilsman" (1884)
- "In the dance studio" (1897)
- "Blue dancers" (1899)
- "Ballerinas behind the scenes" (1900)