The Dance Class

The Dance Class

This oil painting is the more representative of the degas ballerina painting a picture.The dance studio in crowded and in numerous girls stood a white-haired elderly.The elder on crutches, is reviewing a young girl.Distant corner stood a few dressed lady, should be girls' mother.Two dozen girls action expression is differ, but all tension take in everything in a glance.This is Paris dance classroom assessment of ballet scenes, degas have never been to the examination room, only according to the legend to draw out the tension and complex scenes.Two dozen girls action all source Yu Dejia everyday countless dancer sketch.

This is the impression of exhibition work in 1876, the famous American integration of female painter card Sartre said: the sketch of the painting skills than the Netherlands outstanding genre painter locate.Similar picture composition in Paris the orsay museum also has a picture, painting the name is "dance lessons", that was in 1874 the first impression painting exhibition.Degas attended all eight of the impressionist painting seven-time (except the 7th), is a standard form of impressionist elders, but he would not admit that he is belong to the impressionist.Indeed, degas painting (especially the early) clear smooth lines, composition, bold move for things moment description is complete and is closer to the classical painting on this.But he later paintings, blurred lines, levels, colour by reinforcing the still has the obvious characteristic of impressionism.