At the Mirror Edgar Degas Date: c.1885 - c.1886 Style: Impressionism Genre: genre painting Pastel on paper 49 x 64 cm Location: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, US
Around 1880 Degas's grays gave way to brilliant colours, ranging from red to russet, and muted tones were replaced by warm ones. This came with a change in style and technique, in which pastels became his dominant medium. Degas was the only nineteenth-century painter who made pastels his primary medium. He saw that pastels struck a balance between painting and drawing, enabling him to paint while drawing. Furthermore, he expanded the possibilities offered by pastels by combining them with gouache, watercolour, oils mixed freely with turpentine, and even monotypes.
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