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Call to Artists: Museum of
Computer Art,
Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center.
New York, NY, USA
The
Museum of Computer Art is proud to announce a competition and sale of digital
art at the prestigious Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York City. This is a
live group show sponsored and arranged by the Museum of Computer Art through the
courtesy of Cork Gallery and the Visual Arts League (VAL). These are all
not-for-profit organizations.
Degas Sculptures,
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Photo, above:
Place de
la Concorde,
1875 (250 Kb); Oil on canvas, 78.4 x 117.5 cm (30 7/8 x 46 1/4 in); No. 3K 1399;
Formerly collection Gerstenberg/Scharf, Berlin; Hermitage, St Petersburg. Photo,
below:
Dance Class at the Opéra, 1872; detail; Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The Art Gallery of
Ontario will be the sole Canadian venue for a major exhibition of sculptures
by renowned French 19th-century artist Edgar Degas for 2004. Degas Sculptures will present 73 bronzes from the Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen - one of only four complete sets in
existence. 'The Art Gallery of Ontario is proud to host this extraordinary
collection of Degas sculptures,' said Matthew Teitelbaum, AGO Director and
CEO. 'This will be a rare opportunity for our visitors to experience the
unique grace and beauty of these works.'
1917,
Paris, France. French artist, acknowledged as the master of drawing the
human figure in motion. Degas worked in many mediums, preferring pastel to
all others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and
bronzes of ballerinas and of race horses. The art of Degas
reflects a concern for the psychology of movement and expression and the harmony
of line and continuity of contour. These characteristics set Degas apart from
the other impressionist painters, although he took part in all but one of the 8
impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886. 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. As he grew up, his idol was the
painter Jean Auguste Ingres, whose example pointed him in the direction of a
classical draftsmanship, stressing balance and clarity of outline. After
beginning his artistic studies with Louis Lamothes, a pupil of Ingres, he
started classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts but left in 1854 and went to Italy.
He stayed there for 5 years, studying Italian art, especially Renaissance works.
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