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Watching: The Absinthe. Edgar Degas, 1876. Full
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The players are not in the center of the composition. It forces us to participate and we would be sitting at the table on the left. The pipe man almost out of the frame, like a photo frame in question. Great composition, influenced by Japanese painting and photography, in which Degas, "the classic the follower of Ingres-portraits and drawings vacuum.
It departs from the Impressionist movement and its attraction to the exterior paint to turn their eyes a voyeur, ("Waiting for clients", 1876), to the city and its inhabitants, coloring Parisian interiors masterfully.
Edgar Degas, Chabrier-friend who immortalized in his famous "Orchestra of the Opera" at the expense of the heads of the dancers of the stage, is the portrait of the moment and of women. His painting is not vindictive but solidarity with the underprivileged. Disadvantaged
as this man and empty-eyed prostitute melancholy portrayed in 1876 in absinthe, a picture which produces a feeling of sadness, loneliness and compassion in equal measure.
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