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Edgar Degas (US /deɪˈɡɑː/ or UK /ˈdeɪɡɑː/; French: [ilɛʁ ʒɛʁmɛnɛdɡɑʁ dəɡɑ]; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), was a French artist famous for...

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  • Degas sculpture inspires The Painted Girls

    News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 1 month ago
    In her novel, the Niagara Falls, Ont.-born writer imagines two sisters who must make their own way in 1880s Paris after the death of their father. "I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture
  • week ahead

    News Source: Charlotte Observer Online | 1 month ago
    Thursday, Apr. 04, 2013 tuesday.4.9 Music The Fire Pink Trio Noon and 5:30 p.m...Tryon St. $5 (free for members) at noon; $20 ($15 for members) at 5:30...Debra Reuter-Pivetta, Sheila Browne and Jacquelyn Bartlett perform compositions by Claude
  • Art Review: Art Dealers Association Show at Park Avenue Armory

    News Source: The New York Times | 3 months ago
    When I began reviewing New York art fairs in the late 1990s, one-person shows were rare. Most dealers displayed a variety of works reflecting the diversity of their inventories and clients. That created a hodgepodge effect, which could be exhausting
  • Review: Women artists exhibition misses the mark

    News Source: The Naples Daily News | 3 months ago
    Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) Mrs. Duffee Seated on a Striped Sofa, Reading, 1876 I wanted to like this show...Drawn from the rich holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Painting Women is a traveling exhibition featuring
  • Gustave Jean Jacquet: Validating His Rightful Place in Art History

    News Source: Epoch Times | 3 months ago
    March 1, 2013 Gustave Jean Jacquet (18461909), is known among scholars as one of William Bouguereau's top students. Although Jacquet's subject matter was not of peasant girls or mythological scenes like Bouguereau himself or many of his other
  • Murals chosen for CAP parking structure

    News Source: Thousand Oaks Acorn | 3 months ago
    A member of the Thousand Oaks Cultural Affairs Commission, an advisory body to the City Council, Selvin's long-standing plan to enhance the Civic Arts Plaza's parking structure with murals is underway...We hope (murals) will enrich the experience of
  • Art review: 'Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain' shows life

    News Source: Los Angeles Times | 3 months ago
    Thick, brightly colored paint oozes like mortar from between thousands of canvases stacked like bricks into a kind of room-size temple, and it's smeared in rainbows that unfurl across white walls. It's shot from a pellet gun at a big drawing and out
  • Sisters pirouette into life of misery

    News Source: Miami Herald | 3 months ago
    Edgar Degas' wax-and-fabric statuette Little Dancer Aged Fourteen has held the curiosity of millions in its 28 bronze reproductions, but far fewer know the heart-rending history of the model, Marie van Goethem, and her sisters. In The Painted Girls ,


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