![]() ![]() Degas's academic training encouraged a strong classical tendency in his art, which conflicted with the approach of the Impressionists.He rejected the academic ideal of the mythical or historical subject, and instead sought his figures in modern situations, such as at the ballet. He captured strange postures from unusual angles under artificial light. ![]() Degas's enduring interest in the human figure was shaped by his academic training, but he approached it in innovative ways.While critics of the Impressionists focused their attacks on their formal innovations, it was Degas's lower-class subjects that brought him the most disapproval. He was intrigued by the human figure, and in his many images of women - dancers, singers, and laundresses - he strove to capture the body in unusual positions. But Degas's academic training, and his own personal predilection toward Realism, set him apart from his peers, and he rejected the label 'Impressionist' preferring to describe himself as an 'Independent.' His inherited wealth gave him the comfort to find his own way, and later it also enabled him to withdraw from the Paris art world and sell pictures at his discretion. He shared many of their novel techniques, was intrigued by the challenge of capturing effects of light and attracted to scenes of urban leisure. Always remembered as an Impressionist, Edgar Degas was a member of the seminal group of Paris artists who began to exhibit together in the 1870s. ![]()
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