Degas: Blue Dancers
Edgar Degas's luminous pastel Blue
Dancers (1890; Mus e d'Orsay, Paris)
shows the busy preparations of ballet dancers waiting in the wings. Degas
shared a concern for immediacy with other impressionists, but his compositional
use of space foreshadows postimpressionism. (Erich Lessing/Art Resource,
NY)
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Source:
"Degas: Blue Dancers," Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier, Inc., 2001. <http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/gme_bp?assetid=aa520&assettype=p> (May 20, 2001).