{"id":18473,"date":"2023-05-19T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18473"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T21:13:35","slug":"edgar-degas-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/edgar-degas-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Degas Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Degas was a famous painter who combined figurative work with impressionistic sensibilities, specifically through capturing female dancers. His father, a knowledgeable art enthusiast, nurtured his son&#8217;s gift for drawing and painting when he was a young boy, and he was accepted into the Paris-based \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in 1855. Degas dropped out of school to spend the next three years traveling and painting in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist left a lasting legacy through his capture of movement, interesting angles, point of view, asymmetry, and cropping that disrupt a compositional balance with his views of modern urban life. He experiments with pastels, watercolors, gouache, hatching techniques, and, later, sculpture became a lasting hallmark of his long and prolific career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"659\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"17661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2022.10.3_resized-659x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2022.10.3_resized-659x900.webp 659w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2022.10.3_resized-220x300.webp 220w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2022.10.3_resized-768x1049.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2022.10.3_resized-1125x1536.webp 1125w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2022.10.3_resized-146x200.webp 146w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2022.10.3_resized-460x628.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2022.10.3_resized.webp 1405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"19575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/lent-655x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/lent-655x900.webp 655w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/lent-218x300.webp 218w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/lent-768x1056.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/lent-1117x1536.webp 1117w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/lent-457x628.jpg 457w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/lent.webp 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) Degas was a famous painter who combined figurative&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19578,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18473\/revisions\/19578"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}