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Reknowned artist Edgar Degas was born in Paris, France, on July 19, 1834. He was the son of a banker named Augustin de Gas and his wife Celestine Musson de Gas. The family was moderately wealthy and lived a good life in Paris of the 19th century. Degas actually begain his school at the age of 11 and immediately started on the path of an artist by enrolling in the Lycee Louis Grand. He actually started painting very seriously at an early age and by the time he was 18 he had turned a room in his own home into a studio. Expected to go to law school, as was the course with aristocratic men of the age, Degas dropped out at the age of twenty to devote his life to his painting. More often than not Degas is described as an Impressionist. By the later part of the 1960s, Degas had developed his own painting style. His style was considered different from that of the more conventional art world. He specialized in painting women at work, opera performers, dancers and the like. He also painted cafe life extensively. He utilized bold strokes and vibrant colors in much of his more famous works. In many ways, his paintings have come to be considered "snapshots," freezing moments of life accurately and very completely. He also tended to paint from rather unusual angles. He had a self-expressed goal, which he hoped to realize in his work, of bewitching the truth. |
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