Degas’s Absinthe: analysis and curious facts

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Degas, The Absinthe (1875-1876)

DEGAS’S ABSINTHE: ANALISYS AND CURIOUS FACTS

Once someone asked me what’s beautiful and charming about Degas’s Absinthe. Actually, it’s a painting that doesn’t make you happy; rather, to me, has always had a subheading: “depression”.

No, Degas’s Abisinthe is not beautiful, it’s amazing.
It’s a painting depicting with photographic accuracy a scene that anyone who was in Paris at the end of the 19th century could see. However, Degas didn’t portray only a moment, but he rather told a story, in which it’s easy to imagine feelings and thought of the two protagonists.

In this post you’ll discover one of Edgar Degas’s most intense works.

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Works of the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh to see

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WORKS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF SCOTLAND IN EDINBURGH TO SEE

A list of the works of the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh you must see, a modest art gallery if compared with many others, but certainly full of works by the leading artists of European art.

In this post you’ll find some works you should admire before exiting the museum.

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