The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 106 - 107

Question 1

The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 106 - 107

Answer 1

• Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
• had no interest in landscape painting and no concern for the effects of changing atmosphere and light
• his emphasis on linear drawing and composition, as well as the three-dimensional depth and firm contours of his pictures, set him apart form the Impressionists
• his specialty was the human figure in a moment of arrested motion
• his eyesight began to fail in the 1870s, he switched from oil to pastel
• he called sculptures “A blind man’s art”