The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 106 - 107 Flashcards
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The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 106 - 107
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- Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
- had no interest in landscape painting and no concern for the effects of changing atmosphere and light
- his emphasis on linear drawing and composition, as well as the three-dimensional depth and firm contours of his pictures, set him apart form the Impressionists
- his specialty was the human figure in a moment of arrested motion
- his eyesight began to fail in the 1870s, he switched from oil to pastel
- he called sculptures “A blind man’s art”
