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project: Degas LIFE DRAWING Pepperton Gallery 1st - 9th April 08 Tue - Sat, 12noon - 10pm, Free Admission Private View: Tue 1st April 2008 An exhibition of work completed at the afterschool G&T Life Drawing Class by students from years 8,9 10 and 11. | ||
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Ten girls: Nekeisha Watson, Shenika Watson , Shanaya Antonio, Kirby Pyle, Leonie Descrates, Rebecca Hamilton, Rebecca Viera-Marque, Ilysah Ricketts, Tabitha Manzuangan and Anna-Rose Foster explored Degas' drawings of his ballet dancers through the medium of pastels, paint, pencil and inks. Though the girls favored pastels above the other mediums, just like Degas; possibly because it allowed them to render the human figure in motion with the immediacy that was required to capture “the psychology of movement and expression and the harmony of line and continuity of contour.” Edgar Degas b.1834, d.1917, Paris, was a French artist who was part of the Impressionist movement. He was a much acclaimed master draughtsman, perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and bronzes of ballerinas and of race horses. In the early 1870's the female ballet dancer became his favorite theme. He sketched from a live model in his studio and combined poses into groupings that depicted rehearsal and performance scenes in which dancers on stage, entering the stage, and resting or waiting to perform are shown simultaneously and in counterpoint, often from an oblique angle of vision. Similarly, the girls worked from a live dance model, firstly from quick two minute poses as a warm up exercise followed by longer half an hour/hour long poses. Through the human figure in motion they looked at balance, clarity of outline, structure and form. We hope that you enjoy the exhibition as this is a
tribute to the young hopeful new generation of artists that are emerging out of our
local schools and boroughs. | |||