Edgar Degas: Portrait (1980)
Directed: David Thompson, Ann Turner In this documentary, directors Ann Turner and David Thompson reveal all the aspects of Edgar Degas s art and personality. The artist was as much a painter as an experimental graphic artist, a sculptor, a photographer and a poet Horses, female nudes, and the everrecurring enchanting dancers compose the world of Edgar Degas. Himself a son of the nobility, he chose to study humans in everyday situations, and life in motion. A tightening of the shoelace, a horse in midgallop, a bathing woman Degas, close to the Impressionists, provoked Pariss art critics with these snapshots captured in offcentre framings, radical perspectives and compositions. Ann Turner delves into the atmosphere of the works and reveals, besides Degas the gifted draughtsman and painter, also an experimental graphic artist, sculptor, photographer and poet.
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