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ON EDGAR DEGAS
On returning to this uncomfortable awkward state I’d felt at the
beginning of the project it struck me that Edgar Degas seemed to
be touching on this same theme in many of his drawing and
painting of dancers.
Degas’ depictions of his subjects I’d always been attracted to
because they are involved in the bones of what they do. Sitters sit
awkwardly; dancers are depicted in ungainly in-between states as
they adjust their postures or the straps of their apparel. They are
involved in the mechanics of work and this is no outer show, no
show for an audience. The effort this takes means they are often
seen stretching their bodies at odd angles into effortful and
ungraceful distortions.