Video: Edgar Degas' Marshmallow Nyms in a Modern Interpretation of a Prima Ballerina
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
About the French artist Edgar Degas they said that the ballerinas for him were to some extent a mania. He painted them all his life, as if spying on these "marshmallow nymphs." The prima ballerina of the American ballet tried on the most famous images of ballerinas from the paintings of the famous artist. It is very curious to see how the girl coped with her task of reincarnation.
Last summer, Misty Copeland (Misty copeland) became the first African-American prima ballerina of the American Ballet Theater. The girl gained great fame, and, thanks to this, she was invited to a special photo shoot organized by a famous fashion magazine Harpers Bazaar.
Misty Copeland appeared as a dancer from the painting "Prima Ballerina" or the sculpture "The Little 14-Year-Old Dancer". Misty herself notes that it was difficult for her to exactly repeat the poses in which the dancers were on the canvases, since each ballerina feels the dance in her own way.
The photo session is timed to coincide with the opening this month of the Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty exhibition of paintings by Edgar Degas at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The impressionist Edgar Degas earned an excellent reputation for his paintings of ballerinas. However, the "dance" theme was not the only one in his work. One of Degas's paintings "Absinthe" caused a strong resonance in the society.
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