Synopses & Reviews
Monsieur Degas likes to paint the students while they practice in ballet classand#151;theyand#8217;ve inspired many of his beautiful paintings. But one day he mistakenly leaves his bag of paints in the dance studio and instead takes a young ballerinaand#8217;s bag, which contains her new tutu for the eveningand#8217;s recital! And so the ballerina begins a great chase to find Degas before her big night.
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As she searches the streets of Paris, the ballerina encounters many other Impressionist painters, who are in the process of painting some of their great works. Monet, Renoir, Caillebotte, and Cassatt help the ballerina until she is reunited, at last, with Degas.
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Featuring the original Impressionist paintings that inspired this picture book of historical fiction, along with an authorand#8217;s note about Impressionism and this vibrant period in Paris, Chasing Degas will delight young lovers of art and ballet.
Synopsis
Edgar Degas is best known for his luminous studies of dancers. He captured his young female subjects warming up, practicing at the bar, or mid-performance with a stunning immediacy and accuracy, on canvas, paper, and in bronze. Although Degas did not consider himself part of the Impressionist movement, he is often viewed in that context. This sumptuously illustrated book offers a new framework, establishing Degas as a thoroughly modern artist who was engaged with and influenced by the then-new mediums of photography and film. Using drawings, pastels, paintings, prints, sculpture, photographs taken by the artist and his contemporaries, and samples of film from the period, renowned Degas scholars Richard Kendall and Jill DeVonyar examine the artists innovative approach to the subject, from his documentary mode of the early 1870s to the sensuous and expressive manner of his late work.
About the Author
Eva Montanari is an internationally recognized author and illustrator whose work has been seen in calendars, books, posters, and magazines. She has been praised by Childrenand#8217;s Literature, which said, and#147;The acrylic and colored pencil illustrations that fill the pages . . . have strong impact.and#8221; She lives in Rimini, Italy.