Edgar degas monoprints

[image_with_animation image_url=”7183″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] I’ve been making more monotypes. I can’t seem to put them down. The exciting discovery of what comes out of the press is as neurologically rewarding as opening wrapped presents. Better maybe. The invitation of the ghosted plate, cold blankness eliminated, grey tones and shapes invite me to create …

Degas was a loner. He had always felt alone. Alone because of his character, alone because of his unyielding principles, alone because of his severe judgments. He exhibited with the Impressionists but he didn’t consider himself a member of the group, if for no other reason than that he violently rejected the very idea of painting outdoors. “If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on the people who paint landscapes from nature,” he told the art…

The first picture that caught me up short was “Factory Smoke” (1877–79), hanging alone on a freestanding wall in the middle of the gallery.

Degas monotype

Edgar Degas. Landscape with Rocks (Paysage avec rochers). 1892. Pastel over monotype in oil on wove paper. High Museum of Art, Atlanta,

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas; The Jet Earring; monotype; 1876 - 1877 - See more at: http://skpgfinearts.com/Monoprint.html#sthash.530lPfk9.dpuf

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, 1892

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Edgar Degas (1834–1917) The Tub, ca. 1876–1877 Monotype, 16-1/2 x 21-1/4 inches Bibliothèque de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris. Collections Jacques Doucet © Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Bibliothèque, Collections Jacques Doucet

Head of a Woman in Profile Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: 1879–80 Medium: Softground etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper (unique impression) Dimensions: plate: 4 1/2 x 4 7/16 in. (11.5 x 11.3 cm) sheet: 7 5/8 x 10 1/4 in. (19.3 x 26 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929 Accession Number: 29.107.52

A monotype is a hybrid of drawing and printmaking. Monotypes are divided into two types - the dark field and the light field. Degas used the dark field method of monotype Edgar Degas's "Three Ballet Dancer (Trois danseuses)," 1878-80. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) "Although the monotype process typically yields a single print, Degas often made more than one impression, or “pull,” from a plate. Each successive pull yielded a less intense, more degraded image—both a repetition…

Edgar Degas / Getting into Bed / monotype

Mountain Landscape, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas (France, Paris, 1834-1917), France, circa 1890-1893, Prints, Monotype.

The Jet Earring Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: 1876–77 Medium: Monotype printed in black ink on white wove paper Dimensions: Plate: 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (8.2 x 7 cm) Sheet: 7 1/16 x 5 3/16 in. (18 x 13.2 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Francis Henry Taylor, 1959 Accession Number: 59.651

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