Ballet at the Paris Opera

There is a mysterious concept behind the art of ballet. Ballet is often said to represent the beauty and artistic values of multiple generations. Shows displayed in the land of Paris, depicted a sense of wealth but later evolving into the story telling of several movements. In the year 1877, painter Edgar Degas combined his rebellious views with the traditional techniques in order to create one of my favorite paintings; the Ballet at the Paris Opera. Through this combination, Degas was able to depict a sense of balance in his artwork. During Degas ruin on the Paris art scene, he captured ballet as a romantic sense and tone. Because of Degas’s unorthodox ways, his techniques appear to seem after the time of the post-romantic era. This famous painting allows room for inspiration. Primarily through Degas’s use of smudging, body positioning, and transparent color use “Ballet at the Paris Opera” conveys Degas’s realistic interpretation of dance as a legitimate artistic form of art.
The form of this painting in based of the impact Degas puts on the three ballerinas in the upper left side of the performance stage. Generally speaking I viewed the form of this painting as structurally disorganized. Because of the way Degas tried to include all angles of this performance the artwork gives of a choppy visual structure. I believe that believe Degas chose to include the heads of the audience members it portrays a crowded form to the naked eye. Essentially, “Ballet at the Paris Opera”, displays the viewers with a look into Paris social activities such as opera ballet performances.
Degas’s style is very distinctive in this painting. In relations to the impressionism movement Degas style in the “Ballet at the Paris Opera” indeed emphasized...

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...e past views of this painting are the same as the views of modern art. It was and still is a sample of entertainment and enlightenment. This painting is far from a religious one and that’s a very clear statement. Degas’s painting is secular is motive and it was meant to be place in rooms of entertainment such as family rooms. I believe it is a picture of discussion. In general, the art work as a whole seems to add up to show ballet as an artistic form in the light of a painting. The art work seems to mean that emotion and creativity of ballet can be expressed in and illustrated form of painting not just a routine performance. In some sense of manner, viewers should undertake Degas’s painting “Ballet at the Paris Opera” as an experience in itself. Not relaying on the critics judgment but instead determining the value of the painting by sight, touch and understanding.