![]() ![]() In fact, one art historian (Armstrong 1991) has gone so far as to say that "in almost all of the dance pictures exhibited between 18, there are only small groups of dancers actually dancing, and they are invariably surrounded. During rehearsals for a short ballet within Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni on the Paris Opéra’s stage in the mid-1870s, Degas found himself entranced by the action both onstage and in the wings. It is related to several other works by Degas discussed below. The painting incorporates the use of the solvent turpentine with oil paint, ink drawing, pastel, and watercolor (see Technical Notes). Two male abonnés (season subscribers) sit at the far right of the stage. The ballet master in a black suit at midground leads the motion on stage with his fingers, like a conductor. At left dancers wait in the wings, while other dancers rehearse at center stage. The view is from a slightly elevated point above the orchestra pit the scrolls of two double basses are just visible in the foreground, radically cropped at the bottom of the canvas. ![]() The Painting: This very unusual mixed-media picture shows a rehearsal for a ballet. ![]()
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