Degas on Chile

The last exhibition how I go was in September, made it in Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. This exhibition was called “Degas escultor: Impresiones de la vida moderna” and was about the sculptures of the French artist. Edgar Degas was a French painter and sculptor of the XIX Century. Most of his paintings is centered in the vision of the ballet and dealing with everyday scenes. Belonged to the impressionist style, his works shows the saturation of the color and the matter, just like in his sculptures. The original sculptures was made with wax, but in this exhibition was made in bronze.
One of his most famous sculptures calls “Little Dancer of Fourteen Years,” and was presented in the exhibition. This sculpture shows a little girl in a dance position with her prom dress (made with real fabric). The most interesting of this sculpture is the way to represent the body, a way non-idealized, and whit common elements like the dress.
The horses are other topic worked by Degas. He was interested in represented horses, the anatomy and the movement, making a lot of sculptures about them.
Another section was “miscellaneous”. In this section shows different interest of the artist, like busts experiments, evereday scenes, etc…