Degas Dancer Ornament
Price: $24.00 Members: $21.60
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Item: 10075660
Description
Degas Dancer Ornament
This stunning new 3D ornament features the Degas Dancer, aged fourteen. Part of the National Gallery of Art Collection since 1999, the original sculpture of the Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer by Edgar Degas is of a young student of the Paris Opera Ballet dance school. The ornament is 4.5” tall with a gold ribbon hanger.
Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) was considered the supreme painter of the ballet, creating hundreds of paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures of 19th-century dancers.
- Painted resin
- Gold ribbon for hanging
- 4.5” tall
- NOT A TOY
- Designed in USA
- Made in China
History
Ballet
In classic or contemporary ballet, dancing may tell a story, express a mood, or simply reflect the music in movement. Ballet as part of staged performances originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries and from there spread to France. The creation of classical ballet as we know it today occurred during the reign of the art-loving French king Louis XIV in the mid-17th century. During the Romantic era, ballet technique evolved to express new ideas, most notably with women dancing en point, or on their toes, allowing them to appear weightless and otherworldly.
Among the choreographers who helped bring ballet into the modern age by exploring new visual and dramatic styles are George Balanchine, Antony Tudor and—bridging the worlds of classical dance and Broadway—Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins.
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