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- Much as Degas was fascinated by the movements of dancers, he was also intrigued by the repetitive, specialized gestures made by laundresses as they worked. This painting, the first of three versions of the composition, is distinguished by its dramatic chiaroscuro, with the woman silhouetted against a luminous white backdrop.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436174Edgar Degas | A Woman Ironing - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Oct 6, 2023 · Kneeling with her back to the viewer, a seamstress makes alterations to the dress of the woman standing in front of her. The darker color of her own clothing would have shown less visible wear and needed laundering less often than the delicate white clothing of the standing figure.
This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to explore Impressionist artist Edgar Degas’s representations of Parisian laundresses. These working-class women were a visible presence in the city, washing and ironing in shops open to the street or carrying heavy baskets of clothing.
Jan 18, 2022 · Yet a difficulty hangs over Degas’ images of women. A reputation for misogyny has gathered around the artist, founded upon numerous testimonies, both from himself and from others.
Sep 22, 2017 · Most of Degas' painting are of and about women. Using some of his finest works, this explores how he portrayed 'the modern woman', from ironing to the brothel.
Oct 10, 2018 · Anyway, there was La JJ, in a crumpled violet dress that opened and closed with a complicated network of folds around the neck. The play was a true story about La JJ’s lover, here called Orpheus, who was unwillingly detained in a mental hospital during a manic episode.
Oct 4, 2017 · Whether capturing a roll of belly flesh in the pastel “Woman Scratching Her Back” (1881), or immortalising the ungainly cocked leg of a female model as she appears to tumble from her bath in...
Jun 6, 2023 · Degas used his position as a flaneur to depict women as sexual commerce in the 19th century, but did nothing to relieve women of their pain. Rather, his work enforced the existence of such objectification to a similarly bourgeois audience.
