The artist that I chose for this poetry unit was Degas and the painting that I chose is called "Ballet" but is also known as the "Star". It's made from pastel on canvas.
The history of Degas is very interesting. Its defenitly not one of those simple lives that we teens are living through right now. He was born July 19th in Paris. His father was a banker and his mother died when he was only 13 years old. Over time he changed his focus on painting and what exactly he wanted to draw. He went from painting horses and riders, theaters, plays, girls, women in a toilette/ironing, women bathing / women combing their hair to making sculptures of young schoolgirls. He also abandoned paints for pastels. Throughout the last decades of his life, he began to have eye problems. How can you be a painter without the proper use of eyes? This was defenitly a big loss to Degas because he spent alot of time painting in his life and now the use of that was pretty much gone.
The history of Degas is very interesting. Its defenitly not one of those simple lives that we teens are living through right now. He was born July 19th in Paris. His father was a banker and his mother died when he was only 13 years old. Over time he changed his focus on painting and what exactly he wanted to draw. He went from painting horses and riders, theaters, plays, girls, women in a toilette/ironing, women bathing / women combing their hair to making sculptures of young schoolgirls. He also abandoned paints for pastels. Throughout the last decades of his life, he began to have eye problems. How can you be a painter without the proper use of eyes? This was defenitly a big loss to Degas because he spent alot of time painting in his life and now the use of that was pretty much gone.
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