Focus on: Degas

City Lit

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In London

£ 69 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Edgar Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. He was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement – one can think of his dancers, racecourse subjects and female nudes. This course will examine how Degas changed the course of painting by applying the traditional methods of history and academic painting to contemporary subject matter – the painting of modern life.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

• Be able to situate Degas’s work within its social and cultural context
• Describe Degas’s style and use of materials
• Describe the artist’s contribution to Impressionism.

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Subjects

  • Painting

Course programme

• Degas’s life and influences
• Key works such as ‘The Dance Class’, and ‘A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers’
• Degas’s use of material and technical mastery
• The places, people and society that informed the Impressionist movement.

You will be taught with slide presentations and group discussions. You might wish to bring a notebook. You might wish to buy some of the books on any reading list given out in class.

Additional information

General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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