Pic collage of Edgar Degas' work by Gemma Wiseman
Edgar Degas broke with a classical sense of beauty and a formal sense of balanced composition. In the 1880's, he painted the sacred ballet world, imbuing it with a sense of real, every day humanity. Posed, stiffly seated subjects bent a little under his brushwork. He caught them off guard, it seemed.
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Simply Snickers prompt ~ Edgar Degas' birth + standing + still
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Degas' art of dance in the wings is
A secret dance ~
Like a peephole window on
Private ablutions
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Standing
Crunched
Twisted
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A strange kind of
Alternative
Fragmented
Still
Beauty
Like the pause of a film frame ~
A cut ~
Stylised movement
Trapped in
A microscope slide
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Motion
Motionless
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