Edgar Degas helped to found and develop the Impressionist group of artist and their exhibitions.

This paper will discuss two iconic impressionist artist, Vincent Van Gogh and Edgar Degas. I will give details on these two artist lives, and see how they use impressionism to make their beautiful paintings like, Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” and Edgar Degas’ “Dancers in Blue”. I will explain how Lucy Lipids 3-pronged analysis can apply to both of these paintings, and how a few of the Gestalt Principles can be seen in these painting.

Pablo Picasso’s way of drawing can be seen as very different and rather similar at the same time compared to Vincent Van Gogh’s method. Drawing allowed van Gogh to capture light and images more quickly than with painting and

Both groups painted contemporary pieces, inspired by landscapes and modern life. Impressionists focused on the lighting, and the natural movement of the setting they were painting. They painted things en Plein air (in open air). In order to truly capture the essence of an image, they believed that you must be experiencing it firsthand. They started to break away from the Realist perspective, with the lack of dimension and modeling. Impressionist had a particular interest in capturing transitory moments in time. They used unique angles and thinner brush strokes to capture the visual element of being in motion. There was a bigger emphasis on the use of color in impressionist works. They used a technique in which they applied color to already wet paint, to develop the colors of the painting. This style of painting was a gateway for post- impressionism.

He first began learning lithography and over the years produced some 60 lithographs, regularly treating only a few specific themes, notably landscapes depicting everyday scenes of city life, or intimate views of cozy interiors with his immediate family circle. Vuillard's lithographs are today acclaimed as some of the most creative printmaking of the turn of the century.

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas is now commonly known as simply Edgar Degas. He was born on July 19, 1834 in Paris, France. He was born to a wealthy family, and he was encouraged to become an artist, but not as a career (The Art History). Degas artwork was part of the Impressionist Movement. The Impressionists moved from realistic paintings to the expression of emotion in their paintings. However, according to Kleiner, “Unlike Monet, who personifies Impressionism for most museum-goers, Degas was not concerned with light and atmosphere. Indeed, he specialized in indoor subjects and made many preliminary studies for his finished paintings. Degas’s interests were primarily recording body movement and exploring unusual angles of viewing. He was fascinated by the formalized patterns of motion of the classical ballet performed at the Paris Opéra and with the training of ballerinas at its ballet school” (849). He paints similar subject matters to the Impressionists, but puts his own twist on them. The

In his illustrations and paintings, he like to use a very traditional technique to paint, he would start with draw a number of thumbnail of his models, and then get the perfect composition, then he uses round or flat soft sable brushes with paint that shined down by turpentine, to get a thin wash of the composition, then he would use flat hard bristle brushes with regular and thicker paint to do the rest of the painting, with this technique, he is able to keep the shadows transparent and thin, but also a interesting light side with all his characterized brush

Lines are paths or marks left by moving points and they can be outlines or edges of shapes and forms. Lines have qualities which can help communicate ideas and feelings such as straight or curved, thick or thin, dark or light, and continuous or broken. Implied lines suggest motion or organize an artwork and they are not actually seen, but they are present in the way edges of shapes are lined up.

His early paintings had an unconventional, unique, and unfinished look about them. The images were known to everyone in everyday life.

In the artwork line is used to show things such as movement. For example, in the painting line is used in the clothing to give it detail. In the painting the gods

However, the dancer’s costume are very bright with pink, yellow, and green. Fiero informs us that he never sacrificed line and form to the beguiling qualities of color and light (120). Degas' use of muted colors stands in contrast to the vivid colors being used by the Impressionists in their landscapes.

The different types of lines used are curved, irregular and contour. The curved lines is used as an expression of movement and grace and in this case are used to show the curves found in the body of the woman. For example the curved lines are used to indicate the jutting of her breast and also the slight folds present on her stomach indicating her slight hunched state. Curved lines are also used to show the indication of nails on both her hand and feet. Irregular lines is a mixture of different type of lines to convey texture in the sculpture. For instance in the rippling effect of the cloth beneath her and as well as in her hair. Lastly contour lines is the unification of line creating a silhouette of the sculpture. Although three-dimensional, viewing the sculpture from a distance it will flatten out and casts a two-dimensional image on the retina. Therefore it becoming clear and capable that the figure grasped as a whole disregarding detail is a woman.

The first scene in which line and shape were used was one between Vincent and Butch. In this scene Butch had returned home to grab his watch and later found Vincent to be in his bathroom while he was in the kitchen cooking pop-tarts. Lines that were utilized in this scene were made by the appliances and furniture. The countertops and cabinets provide diagonal lines which help the audience to sense where the camera is wanting them to look. These lines also help to show a sense of depth to the room even though it is a small kitchen in a rundown apartment complex. Also, there are the lines that direct towards the hall that leads straight into the door frame used for the bathroom. These lines help to make a

I am very grateful to have studied his work. My opinion of Impressionist paintings has changed. I now see the fuzzy artworks as a story that has to come into focus by your mind. I can see the soft lines Degas used to create the graceful poses of the ballerinas. I can feel what he was feeling, to be a mere observer in their very busy, serious prep time. I do get a very calming feeling overall from painting. I hope that it will still be there when I

Salvador Dalí is best known as the flamboyant and eccentric poster-boy of the Surrealist Movement. Born in 1904, Dalí spent the majority of his life working on various forms of his art, making him one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century. While he is notorious for his paintings, he worked with many different mediums, which included sculpting, fashion, photography, and film. He began to show an incredible skill in art from very early on in his life, a skill that was nurtured by both of his parents. He began his formal training at age ten, which he continued until he was twenty two. Dalí was enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando until he was expelled from the academy for confidently claiming that “none of

Without the Japanese printmaker Hokusai, Impressionism may never have happened. He is a father figure of Western Modernism. In Japan, Hokusai was viewed as crude, underneath the thought of the magnificent literati. In the West, his outline of space with color and line, as opposed to by means of one-point perspective, would have a revolutionary effect. Most artist were influenced by his landscapes but Degas, he was influenced by Hokusai’s rendering of human forms. You can truly see how he was influence by Hokusai in his bathers artwork. Degas was uncommonly interested in women’s private, rather than public, appearances. Degas’