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Degas and the Ballet - Picturing Movement
Opens: 17/09/2011 Closes: 11/12/2011
Royal Academy of Arts, London
An insightful new exploration of Degas and his most celebrated subject - the ballet. Tracing his preoccupation with dance and movement from his earliest works, this exhibition highlights his engagement with the advances in photography and film emerging at the time. Includes around eighty-five pieces in various media.
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this is london“See this exhibition, but do not be converted by it...” The exhibition reaches beyond drawing and into photography, proving what we already know - that the camera was to Degas a useful tool capable of stopping the dancer in positions impossible to see...
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The Independent“To hang his works in their dozens in academic rooms is to harm them...” The power of The Little Dancer lies in there being no one way of seeing her, which is where my quarrel with the Academy’s show lies...
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Financial Times“Outstanding...” This is the most enjoyable, illuminating exhibition I have seen anywhere this year, and triumphantly proves how much we can still glean from a deep, precisely focused exploration of the most familiar masters...
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The Telegraph“Presents many scintillating studies in a variety of media...” Summoning the zeitgeist behind great art, though, is a good and illuminating thing — and that is what this beautiful and substantial exhibition at the Royal Academy does in spades...
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Guardian“A tremendous show...” Degas goes far beyond observation, as if willing himself into the body of his dancers. It is said that Degas's art is all climax from the off and so it seems from this show, superbly curated by Richard Kendall and Jill DeVonyar...
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