"Pastel" colors in art. Where does the word come from?

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs #EdgarDegas

When thinking about what art I could share for this week's Art Talk. I thought of this portrait by Edgar Degas of Madame Rene De Gas. Madame Rene de Gas, 1873, Edgar Degas National Gallery of Art, DC Edgar

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things #EdgarDegas

El Pintor de Bailarinas

Edgar Degas, "Autorretrato", circa 1857-58, óleo sobre papel (Museo de Bellas Artes, Houston) fuente Algunos artistas son como antenas: multiplicadores de todas las contradicciones de los tiempos

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs #EdgarDegas

source L'Absinthe Also known as In a Cafe is a well-known if not the most well known work of Edward Degas. Created on circa 1875 -76 via oil painting on the canvass. Aside from being famous its also a

The World Most Beautiful 50 Paintings  Edgar Degas Scene from the Steeplechase The Fallen Jockey, 1897

The artistic film was returned after nine years in a museum in Marseilles The 19th-century French artist Edgar Degas painting was found in a bus near Paris, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Degas's

The World Most Beautiful 50 Paintings  Edgar Degas  Woman Viewed from Behind

The World Most Beautiful 50 Paintings  Edgar Degas  Races Horses at Longchamps, 1871