에드가 드가(Edgar Degas), 프랑스, 화가, 1834~1917
경마장에 간 '드가', 발레리나를 주로 그리던 "드가 Edgar Degas (1834~1917)'는, 한때 경마장을 자주 드나들며 말을 그렸답니다. 그가 10년간 말을 소재로 그린 작품은 유화 45점, 파스텔화 20점 외에도 드로잉은 250점가량이나 있죠.
당시 파리의 경마장은 일부 부유층들만 다니던 곳이었는데, 드가와 마네가 이곳에서 말의 움직임을 관찰하고 표현했습니다.
드가의 말 그림 특징은, 경주 직전의 긴장감을 즐겨 담았다는 점입니다. 탁월한 화면 배치와 진한 갈색의 말과 기수들이 입은 원색의 조끼가 색감의 조화를 이루며, 생동감을 주고 있습니다.
About Him
Degas was born in Paris, France, the eldest of five children of Célestine Musson De Gas and Augustin De Gas, a banker. The family was moderately wealthy. At age eleven, Degas (as a young man he abandoned the more pretentious spelling of the family name) began his schooling with enrollment in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, graduating in 1853 with a baccalauréat in literature.
Degas began to paint seriously early in his life. By eighteen he had turned a room in his home into an artist's studio, and had begun making copies in the Louvre, but his father expected him to go to law school. Degas duly registered at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris in November 1853, but made little effort at his studies there. In 1855, Degas met Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whom he revered, and was advised by him to "draw lines, young man, many lines." In April of that same year, Degas received admission to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he studied drawing with Louis Lamothe, under whose guidance he flourished, following the style of Ingres. In July 1856, Degas traveled to Italy, where he would remain for the next three years. There he drew and painted copies after Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and other artists of the Renaissance, often selecting from an altarpiece an individual head which he treated as a portrait. It was during this period that Degas studied and became accomplished in the techniques of high, academic, and classical art.
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