Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and his ballerinas.

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This is Thomas Cole's amazing 1834 painting, The Course of Empire: The Savage State!!

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Der Goethe

Was wär ich
Ohne dich,
Freund Publikum!
All mein Empfinden Selbstgespräch,
All meine Freude stumm.
🪶J.W.von Goethe

🎼J.S.Bach:Orchestral Suite No.2 B Minor ,BWV1067
Marc Hantai▪️Jordi Savall
https://t.co/0bj9SiChqr

🖌️L. Müller (1834-1892):Weimar, Goethes Gartenhaus

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Today we're marking the first nationally-recognized Empancipation Day in Canada.

This day commemorates August 1, 1834 when the Slavery Abolition Act took effect across British North America.

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🐚 Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes
Paris: Chez Rousseau: [1834-1880]
https://t.co/ZrfvS8AuN1

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🐚 Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes
Paris: Chez Rousseau: [1834-1880]
https://t.co/x3VEdX6zKq

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"Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink..."
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, died today in 1834. https://t.co/I7e1ftL7fc

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Edgar Degas (born OTD 1834): dancer takes a quick rehearsal break to catch up on the news. Evidently the news was a pleasant, calming thing back then. Sigh.

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Dancer Tying Her Shoe, 1887

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'Le goût, c'est la mort de l'art'

Edgar Degas

btd 1834 d 1917



'Le tube'

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On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas was born: July, 19th, 1834 (d. 1917)

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Thoughts on art from Edgar Degas (b otd 1834):

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."

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Born Edgar Degas French & famous 4 obsessive depiction ballet dancers One of seminal group intrigued by challenge of capturing interplay of light in urban leisure scenes Édouard Manet & Mme. Manet …

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1834年の今日は、フランス印象派の画家、エドガール・ドガの誕生日。ミステリ・ファンなら、絵画に興味がなくとも、「刑事コロンボ 二枚のドガの絵」を知らない人はいないだろう。ドガの絵はオルセー美術館で二枚どころか何枚も見たはずなのだが、ほとんど印象に残っていない・・・

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🐘 The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals. v.1 plates.
London: G. Henderson, 1834-1837.
https://t.co/SKJUIIHmgO

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'Don Quixote and Sancho Panza'~ Honoré Victorin Daumier, (1855)

Daumier began painting for his own pleasure from 1834. The subjects in his paintings were mainly drawn from observations he made from everyday life, from classical mythology and from literature.

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🐚 Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes
Paris: Chez Rousseau: [1834-1880]
https://t.co/C0dlVC5J38

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