"Two Dancers- Degas" - Dora, Isabel and Laura 8C

Our group has decided to reproduce a painting that was produced by Edgar Degas, called “Two Dancers”.

Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas was born is Paris, July 19th , 1834. Degas was a french painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. He’s known specially because of his particular vision of the ballet world, knowing how to capture the most beautiful and sudden scenarios. He’s also known by his famous biscuits and as one of the founders of Impressionism. Lots of his works are maintened in the Orsay’s Museum, in Paris, where de artist was born and died. “Two Dancers” was started in 1878, but was only finished in 1880. The painting shows two young ballerinas in a plain beige background. We feel a bit of confusion when looking at the picture, because they’re dressed to dance, but it seems that they don’t want to do it. We also feel some innocence of children, what, at this period of life, is very present. The weaknesses are that the painting is really impersonal, distant and mysterious, because we will never be able to understand exactly what the artist wanted to show and transmit with this painting. The strengths are that it makes us wonder what was really happening with the girls, what where they feeling, etc. So, this is a very reflexive artwork. Our final impressions are that this is a really controversial artwork, because we can’t be sure about almost anything, but, at the same time, it makes us reflect a lot.