Dega

1. EDGAR
DEGAS

2. of the most
famous
French
impressonists

4. specialized in
painting ballet
dancers and he was
fascinated by
them.

6. He made over 1,500
paintings and
drawings of them

8. He showed dancers in
many poses, not just
dancing but going to
classes, chatting and
trying their shoes

11. As he grew older he
suffered eye problems
and began to make
more sculptures
instead of paintings

13. Degas made “Little
Dancer Aged
Fourteen” in 1880.
The master gave to the
bronze sculpture a
real cloth skirt a hair

15. Degas wanted to
show how people
really move catching
them in just their
awkward unbalanced
poses other artists