#Transfigurations: Modern Masters. Edgar Degas’ delightful, - TopicsExpress



          

#Transfigurations: Modern Masters. Edgar Degas’ delightful, unidealised Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (Little Dancer Aged 14), c1879-81 (this one cast in bronze in 1922) greets the viewer at the entrance to the exhibition. Wearing a muslin tutu and a satin ribbon – Degas fooled around with mixed media long before it was commonplace – feet in fourth position, shoulders and arms stretched tautly back, chest forward, head upturned, she is half defiant street coquette, half budding ballerina, a “petit rat of the Paris Opera”, and determinedly, precociously present. Much maligned in her day, she is a fitting opening act to the always absorbing, once radical, masterworks within. Wexner Center for the Arts studiointernational/index.php/transfigurations-modern-masters-wexner-collection-pablo-picasso-jean-dubuffet-alberto-giacometti-edgar-degas
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 21:20:47 +0000

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