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| | Edgar Degas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French painter and sculptor. | | | Famous and revered, Degas died in Paris on 27 September 1917 and is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France. | | | Degas' innovative composition, influenced by photography and Japanese woodblock prints called Ukiyo-e (Japonism), his skillful drawing, and perceptive analysis of movement made him one of the masters of progressive art in the late 19th century. |
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| | Edgar Degas Biography |
| | Degas was an artist torn between traditional art and the modern impressionist movement. | | | Edgar Degas was born in Paris as the son of a wealthy banker. | | | Later he joined the Impressionists and showed his art work in their exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. |
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| | WetCanvas: Virtual Museum: Individual Artists: Edgar Degas |
| | Degas insisted that painting was an art of convention. | | | Degas is one of those painters whose art is conventionally discussed chronologically. | | | Degas was the aristocrat of the impressionists, not only by birth but in his intellectuality and reserve, his personal detachment in observing a commonplace world to record it intimately. |
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| | Edgar Degas Biography |
| | Degas continued to struggle against his blindness and worked up to about 1912 when, on the advice of his friend Suzanne Valadon, he was forced to leave his apartment in Rue Victor-Massé where he had lived for the past quarter century and move to a more convenient address at 6, Boulevard de Clichy. | | | Degas was a great opera enthusiast and this work was inspired by Rossini's Semiramide which was being staged at the time in Paris - although it displays none of the rappport with the spectacle which was to characterise his later work. | | | It was during the 1870's that Degas acquired his enduring reputation as a "painter of dancers". |
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| | Edgar Degas 1834 - 1917 |
| | Degas' style after the early 1860s was influenced by the budding Impressionist movement, including his friendship with Édouard Manet, as well as his introduction to Japanese graphic art, with its striking representation of figures. | | | Edgar Degas died on September 27, 1917, in Paris, leaving behind in his studio an important collection of drawings and paintings by his contemporaries as well as a number of statues crafted in wax and metal, which were cast in bronze after his death. | | | In 1861, Degas returned to Paris, where he executed several "history paintings," or works with historical or Biblical themes, which were then the most sought-after paintings by serious art patrons and particularly the prestigious state-run art show, the Salon, held each year in Paris. |
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| | Edgar Degas. Biography - Olga's Gallery |
| | Degas’ portrait of Estelle Musson, married to his brother René, was done in 1872/73. | | | Degas gave the painting to Manet; but the latter was dissatisfied with Suzanne’s face and cut the canvas accordingly. | | | Nonetheless, Degas was to participate in all the group exhibitions except that of 1882. |
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| | Edgar Degas - French Painter (1834-1917) |
| | Degas' inspiration to create came from his passion for the Parisian life with its theatres, dancehalls, circuses and perhaps his favourite subjects of all the racetracks and ballet. | | | Degas' schoolboy dreams where of becoming an artist, and he was greatly influenced by his lifelong admiration of Ingres plus many visits to the Louvre and Italy to view the work of the great masters. | | | Perhaps the difficulty in classifying Degas into a particular category of art is a consequence of the true genius of a man able to paint as a classicist, as an impressionist, as a realist and more, with a brilliant combination of them all to place him in a class of his own. |
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http://www.theartgallery.com.au/ArtEducation/greatartists/Degas/about
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| | Artist - Degas |
| | He is a douche for the romantic humbug painter, the painter of sleek bayadères and of drawing-room portraiture. | | | The name of Degas, the pastels of Degas, the miraculous draughtsmanship of Degas created an imponderable fluid which still permeates Paris, Naturally, after the egg trick was discovered we encounter scores of young Columbuses, who paint ballet girls' legs and the heads of orchestral musicians and scenes from the racing paddock. | | | Degas had three painters who, if any, might truthfully call themselves his pupils. |
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| | Edgar Degas |
| | Degas was the son of a wealthy banker, and his aristocratic family background instilled into his early art a haughty yet sensitive quality of aloofness. | | | Degas was the son of a wealthy banker, and his aristocratic family background instilled into his early art a haughty yet sensitive quality of detachment. | | | In Paris, Degas came to know Édouard Manet, and in the late 1860s he turned to contemporary themes, painting both theatrical scenes and portraits with a strong emphasis on the social and intellectual implications of props and settings. |
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http://www.art-and-artist.co.uk/impressionist/degas.htm
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| | NGA - Degas - Object 3 |
| | This focus on history painting is an indication of Degas' ambition as well as his adherence to the traditional means of winning official commendation and commissions by exhibiting at the Salon. | | | In part, this may be Degas' response to the art of a slightly older contemporary, Édouard Manet, who in 1864 had exhibited Episode From a Bullfight, another painting with a generic title that depicted a tragic scene from modern life. | | | Degas' ambitious but problematic history paintings of the late 1850s and early 1860s included works such as Sémiramis Building Babylon (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) and The Young Spartans (National Gallery, London). |
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http://www.nga.gov/education/degas-03.htm
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| | Edgar Degas |
| | Degas copied everything from Mantegna to Moghul miniatures, and even the work of lesser painters than himself; an artist, he said, should not be allowed to draw so much as a radish from life without the constant habit of drawing from the old masters. | | | Degas was the most modern of artists, but his kind of modernity, which entailed a passionate working relationship with the remote as well as the recent past, hardly exists today. | | | "In his late years Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas was chatting in his studio with one of his few friends and many admirers, English painter Walter Richard Sickert. |
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http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/degas.html
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| | Degas |
| | Degas was generally regarded as one of the most important and respected artists of his day. | | | Although Degas approached sculpture relatively late in life, he attacked some of the same problems in three dimensions that had occupied his two-dimensional paintings. | | | Born into a cultivated family in Paris on July 19, 1834, Edgar Degas was ecouraged at an early age to become an artist. |
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http://www.ackland.org/tours/degas.html
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| | MAM - Exhibition Details |
| | This masterpiece was the only sculpture Degas (1834-1917) exhibited in his lifetime, when he included it in the sixth exhibition of Impressionist art in Paris in 1881. | | | While there is general consensus among Degas scholars that the sculptures were not created simply as aids to painting, many of the sculpted dancers, bathers and horses can be related to similar subjects and compositions found among the artist's paintings and pastels. | | | Nearly 20 two-dimensional works will be on view alongside the sculptures to allow visitors a glimpse at Degas' work through different media and to illustrate how closely much of his sculptural work was related to his experimental attitude toward movement and form and his better-known work as a painter. |
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http://www.mam.org/exhibitions/exhibition_details.aspx?ID=39
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| | DEGAS - LoveToKnow Article on DEGAS |
| | At the eighth Impressionist Exhibition, in 1886, Degas continued his realistic studies of modern life, showing drawings of the nude, of workwomen, and of jockeys. | | | Several of his works may be seen at the Luxembourg Gallery, to which they were bequeathed, among a collection of impressionist pictures, by M. Caillebotte. | | | Besides his pastels and his paintings of genre and portraits among these, several likenesses of ManetDegas also handled his favorite subjects in etching and in aquatint; and executed several lithographs of Singers at Cafs-concert, of Balletgirls, and indeed of every possible subject of night-life and incidents behind the scenes. |
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| | Edgar Degas Prints - Edgar Degas Posters - Free Shipping |
| | Degas was known to be a perfectionist, and his years spent learning the style of the Renaissance painters was fueled by this character trait. | | | Another unique characteristic of Degas' style was the fact that he liked to work in a studio. | | | His hard work paid off, and upon his return to France in 1859 he began exhibiting his works at the Salon in Paris. |
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| | Degas as Photographer (Getty Press Release) |
| | Degas' fluid movement between various media provides a focus for the third gallery, in which his photographs are seen along with works including paintings, drawings, a monotype, and even a bronze sculpture. | | | Born of French and Italian ancestry, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) abandoned law studies in 1855 to pursue art, enrolling in the École des beaux arts in Paris. | | | A local photographer actually made the exposure in 1885, but the picture was conceived and composed by Degas, anticipating by a decade the artist's direct personal involvement with the medium. |
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http://www.getty.edu/news/press/exhibit/degas.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Edgar Degas (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Edgar Degas (Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas)[Eler´ zhermaN´ edgAr´ dugA´] Pronunciation Key, 1834–1917, French painter and sculptor, b. | | | Ranked among the greatest of French artists, Degas profoundly influenced such later artists as Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso. | | | Gradually, Degas turned away from the medium of oil painting, perhaps because of his failing eyesight. |
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| | Degas and the Dance |
| | Degas has always been one of my favorite Impressionist painters, favoring ballet and racehorses as his subject matter. | | | Sometimes Degas painted on green or brown paper and thinned the paint with turpentine. | | | This Degas exhibit, of over 140 works, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which runs through May 11, is definitely worth the trip from New York, Boston, New Jersey, or wherever you may be. |
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http://www.exploredance.com/degas31603.html
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| | RISD museum provides view of Degas - Boston.com |
| | A few years later, Degas quarreled with Blanche, who had painted a portrait of the intensely private Degas. | | | In September 1885, French impressionist Edgar Degas sketched a pastel portrait of six of his friends while they enjoyed a week on the Normandy coast. | | | With relatively little written about Degas' friendships, "Six Friends" should give the public a chance to learn something new about the artist, she said. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/09/24/risd_museum_provides_view_of_degas
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| | Art Review: Degas at Harvard |
| | Though Degas is perhaps best known for his ballerinas, this exhibit exemplifies a range of methods and mentalities within his compositions. | | | Most impressive, however, is how this exhibit emphasizes a common empathetic devotion throughout Degas' work, as it appears in his conspicuously glorious pastels and paintings as well as in his more modest works. | | | The simplicity and scale of the Sackler Art Museum's Degas exhibit is reflective of this personal tenderness within Degas' work, and therefore should not be missed. |
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http://www.harvardindependent.com/news/2005/10/27/Arts/Art-Review.Degas.At.Harvard-1038478.shtml
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| | French Impressionism in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| | In this gallery, Degas’ relationship with his family is felt in his exquisite portrayal of his brother, Rene` Degas. | | | A sense of Degas’ affinity with his cousin, Estelle, and his Aunt Odile, is strongly felt throughout this gallery. | | | The first gallery is titled "Degas’ Family In Paris", and is a magnificent introduction to the Degas lineage. |
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http://www.passion4art.com/articles/french_impress.htm
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| | Edgar Degas |
| | Best known as a painter, Degas worked with photography and printmaking as well as with sculpture, and there was arguably no more influential artist in the nineteenth century than this irascible conservative. | | | The only sculpture exhibited by Degas in his lifetime, the wax version of the Little Dancer was in poor shape when unearthed in his studio after his death. | | | Perhaps influenced by Edouard Manet, Degas shifted his interest to contemporary life in Paris, especially that of the theatre and the street café. |
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| | Edgar Degas' Life in the 'Big Easy' |
| | Benfey is the first to discover that Degas had African American cousins--another source of division for him to work through in his life and his work. | | | Degas' 1872 visit to New Orleans may have been a luminous experience for the painter as well. | | | In 1988, while he was attending an exhibition devoted to Degas' work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Benfey began to think about writing a book about Degas and his brief visit to post-Civil War New Orleans to visit relatives there. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/980123/benfey.html
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| | Edgar Degas - Framed Fine Art Prints |
| | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings and bronzes of ballerinas and race horses. | | | These characteristics set Degas apart from his fellow Impressionist painters, although he took part in all but one of the eight Impressionist exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. | | | He sketched from a live model in his studio and combined poses into groupings that depicted rehearsal and performance scenes in which dancers on stage, entering the stage, and resting or waiting to perform are shown simultaneously and in counterpoint, often from an oblique angle of vision. |
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http://www.chooseart.net/edgar_degas.html
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| | Degas, Director: An Easel Becomes a Stage - New York Times |
| | Competitive, mercurial, temperamentally a nonjoiner, Degas spent less than a year in art school and was largely self-taught. | | | Of course, the conflicts are what turned him into Degas instead of some other artist: Boldini, say, or Renoir (his friends), or Toulouse-Lautrec (his adoring acolyte). | | | But as the only one-man Degas exhibition in any museum anywhere during the artist's lifetime, it made history. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/arts/design/05cott.html?ex=1280894400&en=65eb0760fe28d87b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| | Great Performances . Degas and the Dance . 2004 Degas Exhibitions Guide PBS |
| | This exhibition juxtaposes the works of Edgar Degas with those of four Italian artists who were working in Paris during his lifetime and who gained inspiration from Degas' artistic skill and innovative techniques. | | | If the film has piqued your interest in Edgar Degas and you are eager to see more of his paintings, sculptures, and drawings, here is a list of exhibitions of his work currently on view or scheduled for 2004 that you can visit or explore online. | | | Unraveling the working techniques of a master artist is the goal of this ongoing series of exhibitions at London's National Gallery of Art. |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Degas headlines Tate exhibition |
| | Degas' L'Absinthe, of two lowly cafe drinkers, is the most famous painting among the 100 works to go on display. | | | The paintings of Edgar Degas, Walter Sickert and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec will be the focus of an exhibition at the Tate Britain gallery this autumn. | | | Degas' L'Absinthe caused controversy when it was exhibited in London in 1893 |
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| | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
| | Edgar Degas and the ballet are virtually synonymous. | | | A season ticket holder from his late teens, Degas haunted the corridors of the ballet school as well as the rehearsal halls and the stage itself. | | | Tension and release, ambition and routine, discipline and genius, poise and movement: these are the essential ingredients that shape the art of this disconcertingly correct and poignant artist. |
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| | Edgar Degas - NGA |
| | Degas was born to an aristocratic family, unusually supportive of his desire to paint. | | | As a young man he was greatly impressed by the disciplined style of neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who reportedly advised him to “Draw lines, young man, draw lines.” |
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| | Edgar Degas Foundation |
| | The Collection was painted in the Degas House where his bedroom was also his studio. | | | The Degas Foundation is deeply grateful for the support of all who share our belief that the preservation of art is our cultural imperative. | | | Due to his failing eyesight and the brightness of the Louisiana sun, the entire New Orleans Collection was painted in the Degas House. |
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| | Degas' Dancers |
| | Degas anticipates photographic and filmic qualities in his use of light and the `verism' of his cropping and composition. | | | In this film, as in other key titles in the Roland Collection, a meeting takes place between several media: the dance of Degas' subject matter, the dynamism of his draftsmanship, the drama of the score by Marius Constant, and the exploratory and expressive direction of the film-maker's camera work. | | | The dancers `draw' and compose in space, transposing music into visual form, which is in turn reinterpreted in the score, synchronized with Anthony Roland's moving, extemporizing camera work. |
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http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/section/12/410.htm
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| | Horvatland - Frank Horvat Photography: Sculpture Photo, Degas |
| | I tried to find the answers by studying his paintings and his drawings, and also by imagining him in his studio, working on the statuettes. | | | This gave me a feeling of excitement, but also of responsibility: everytime I pressed the button, I asked myself: "would Degas approve of this light and this angle?" (the question was all the more to the point, as Degas had been a competent photographer himself). | | | In fact I had never particularly thought of this - though it is true that I like photographing sculptures, which to me is a work of interpretation, almost as when a performer interprets music. |
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http://www.horvatland.com/pages/05sculptures/01degas/index_en.htm
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| | Dupuy Art Images Art Videos DL |
| | Degas was a complex man and an unorthodox artist. | | | Explore Degas little-known and often misunderstood late period and how his mature focus would influence artists to come. | | | This program includes many original paintings, drawings, and prints to show Degas' favorite settings (the ballet class, the racecourse, the railway) and to explain his innovative use of the camera. |
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http://www.dupuy-artimages.com/VideoIndxD.html
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| | Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas (Getty Museum) |
| | Fellow Impressionist Berthe Morisot remembered him saying that the study of nature was meaningless, since the art of painting was a question of conventions, and that it was by far the best thing to learn drawing from Hans Holbein. | | | From a wealthy Parisian family, Degas devoted himself exclusively to painting without needing to sell a canvas. | | | Almost blind for his last twenty years, Degas worked mostly in pastel with increasingly broad, free handling. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts news Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec at Tate Britain |
| | The most surprising revelation in Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec, the exhibition coming this autumn to Tate Britain, is that in both cases the city was London. | | | One city was also seen by artists as full of discerning art patrons with advanced tastes, prepared to shell out good money for contemporary art, and they scrambled across the Channel to take advantage of it. | | | It will be a darker show in every sense than the golden light and blue skies of Turner Whistler Monet, the blockbuster which ended on Sunday having attracted a record breaking 382,572 visitors to the gallery. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1485456,00.html?gusrc=rss
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Degas |
| | Degas was obsessed with painting girls naked from behind. | | | He painted similar scenes as those of Toulouse-Lautrec, but in his own style. | | | Subjects > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > (D-F) > Degas, Edgar |
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| | Edgar Degas Online |
| | Degas & his landscapes, article by Karen Wilkin | | | Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The Dance Lesson | | | Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. works by Edgar Degas |
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| | Edgar Degas Prints |
| | Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834, Paris - September 27, 1917, Paris) - French painter and sculptor. | | | After 1880, due to a gradual loss of eyesight, Degas switched to pastel and sculpture (The Little Dancer). | | | Degas : Art Activity Pack (Art Activity Packs) by Mila Boutan |
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| | Edgar Degas: Paintings |
| | Edgar Degas: Duke and Duchess of Morbilli, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | | | National Gallery, Washington, D.C. Edgar Degas: The Rehearsal, c. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Degas (Artists in Focus) |
| | Portraits of Degas' early career and details on his works use the Art Institute's extensive Degas holdings to provide visual embellishment. | | | I reccommend this richly detailed novel for any one who is a fan of Degas, Impressionists, or just art in general. | | | This is a truly remarkable work of art. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810963248?v=glance
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| | Cafe Degas - French Bistro |
| | authentic, european, paris, bistro, france, french, dining, louisiana, art, gallery, new orleans, big easy, degas, edgar, creme brulle, creole, esplanade, artist, wine, food |
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| | The DEGAS networking group |
| | Inspiration for the name comes from french impressionism — an art movement which started in the late 1800s and continued into early 1900s. | | | Painters famous from this era are MANET (pronounced "Man eh"), Degas, Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Camille, Turner, among others. | | | We imply for theme the MANET-DEGAS connection, with MANET being the name of both a french impressionist painter and an acronym for Mobile, Ad Hoc NETworks. |
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| | Degas Prints, Posters, UK |
| | Degas Prints, Posters, UK Degas Prints, Posters, UK The following Edgar Degas prints and posters available to buy in the uk, are available to buy on high quality art paper or artist canvas and available to buy any size you need. | | | Your unique Edgar Degas art print or poster may then be taken to be framed in an online picture framing studio. | | | and the webmaster's recommended Degas print = After the Bath |
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