Talk:Module 1: History of Figure Drawing

Figural Artworks! -- Rduchnycz (talk) 14:21, 27 April 2024 (EDT)

Please find an image with a figure that stands out to you from artsandculture.google.com. Copy and share one of the images. Name the artist, year, and title. Write 3-4 sentences about why this stood out to you. Respond to two peers!

Sam Mossman: "The Dancing Class" by Edgar Degas (ca. 1870)

--> I chose this image because the content is familiar to me as I was a dancer when I was a kid. I also was drawn to the sense of movement within the painting as the dancer right in front of the mirror has one leg cocked back and seems like at any moment she will keep moving forward into the next movement. I also notice that there is a girl in the corner who looks to be crying in the corner possibly and the girl behind her seems to be leaning back to talk to the girl stretching at the bar. A lot is going on in the painting and while my eye was immediately drawn to the figure in front of the mirror, the more I look at the painting, the more I see other things happening.