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| Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, 1881, 38 inches, wax then bronze, National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. |
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| The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse),1873–1876, oil on canvas |
Edgar Degas is A French painter, sculptor, and draftsman and is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism (ordinary subject matter, small brush strokes, movement). His subject specialty is dance. More than half of his artwork is of dancers, specifically ballerinas. His Little Dancer of Fourteen Years is his most well known pieces. It was originally cast in wax and then into bronze. The sculpture has real hair and the only part not covered in wax was a hair ribbon given to him by Marie van Goethem and the tutu. Since the bronze gave the stature an unnatural color tone, many critics thought it ugly. The texture of the statue makes it lifelike while the value (darkness from metal) takes away from its life likeness at the same time. The direction of the dancer's pose creates balance.
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