Edgar Degas?

Question

what did edgar degas use to make his paintings and whatever. like paint. oil. crayons. the internet is no freakin help

Answer 1

By the later 1870s Degas had mastered not only the traditional medium of oil on canvas, but pastel as well. The dry medium, which he applied in complex layers and textures, enabled him to reconcile his facility for line more easily with a growing interest in expressive color.

In the mid-1870s he also returned to the medium of etching, which he had neglected for ten years, and began experimenting with less traditional printmaking media—lithographs and experimental monotypes. He was especially fascinated by the effects produced by monotype, and frequently reworked the printed images with pastel.

Answer 2

Most of the Impressionists used oil. Degas did too, but also used pastel, which is like a crayon. It is like a solid stick of dry paint that can be easily blended.

Answer 3

A lot of sites that have historical information about artists and their work will caption any pictures of the artwork with the materials used. They usually have the title of the piece, the approximate year it was completed, what medium followed by what it's painted on (canvas, paper, wood panel), then sometimes they have the location ie what museum or private collection it's in.

As for Degas, most painters at that time were using oils, and I believe his sculptures are mostly cast in bronze.

Answer 4

He used oil and pastel. Although he was not a true impressionist painter he certainly used paint in the same way moving away from the classical dark brown paintings of the early to mid 19 c His paintings are always mat and painted wet in wet paint rather than layers of glazing and never varnished. He would not have used acrylic as they had not been invented. He differed from the impressionists because most of his paintings were painted in a studio and not out of doors . He suffered from very weak eyes so for painting in sunlight would have been impossible.
His subjects were largely racehorses, ballet/theatre and woman either nude or clothed going about their homely pursuits of bathing or ironing or busy with their 'toilet' unaware of an audience rather as if he was spying on them .He never did reclining nudes on sofas . His ballet pictures are on the stage or in rehersal with verty elaborate compositions . He did do copious sketches of dancers . One of his most famous paintings called Asinthe of a girl in a bar with the glass in fromnt of her ...the loneliness of alchohlism . . He had a close relationship with Mary Cassat the American painter and said she drew like a man , he helped her with some of her paintings . He did sculptures of horses and ballet dancers . One very famous one in the old train station Musee d'Orsay in Paris . Look this up there are quite a few of his things there . His name was originally de Gas ..he was therefore an aristocrat. I am surprised ther is nothing on the internet .

Answer 5

Degas used oil pastels to create a lot of his works, he was famous for his work with pastels. Although I think he did use paint as well.

Answer 6

I like his paintings, because I like to look at pictures of ballet dancers and at art that makes a social statement. His art does make a statement about the emptiness of urban existence during his time in the late 1890s (for example, 'The Glass of Absinthe' (1876). Degas liked to capture the moment in his paintings, much like the photographs of his era did. He did not care much for nature painting, because he believed that it also was contrived. He liked indoor scenes such as dancers, circuses and bars. The photography of his time was crude, and it often captured people off guard rather than posed, as he does in his paintings. It showed people at weird angles and often was not balanced. It had light coming in at strange angles. He like the Japanese style of art, which is evidenced in his pictures. He stressed the importance of linear art and often used three-dimensional perspective. In this way, he was not in accordance with the Impressionist painters. However, he felt strongly agianst the influence of the art academies, as did the other Impressionist painters. He liked to portray body movement, including shape and form. Degas also produced works of sculpture.

Answer 7

There are oil paintings ,drawings ,pastels,. etchings .He did as a previous answerer said create experimental monotypes .He did a lot of experiments in his pictures combining gouache and pastels .You should visit a library and look up some books on him his pictures are great no matter what media he used and his story is interesting too.You are likely to get much more info on his methods and materials as well.Good luck!

Answer 8

oil on canvas

i had to recreate his oil paintings with watercolor and it didn't work at all...


wikipedia.org type in edgar degas... theyll tell you like ten thousand times more than you need. try it now

Answer 9

oil paints and dry pastels(not oil).I have seen some of the pastels in person and believe that they are chalk based.

Answer 10

he probably used oil pastels, acrylic paint,and maybe a little bit of oil paint...because considering he did his paintings on canvas, those are the basic things you use on canvas. im an artist and im pretty sure i know my stuff but good luck sweetie. =]