Edgar Degas Outline

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Rachel Ajack¬ CST 110, Section 22 10.9.2014 Title: The Life and Work of Edgar Degas Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the life and work of the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas. Thesis: Edgar Degas was a French impressionist who used his life experiences to influence his artworks and expressed his impressions of life through art. Introduction I. Hello, today I am going to inform you about how the artist Edgar Degas expressed his impressions of life experiences using art. II. First I would like to familiarize you with other artists of the Impressionist Era, whom you may already know. III. According to Camille Mauclair, French art critic and author of Edgar Degas, (1945), Degas exhibited his works with other famed artists such as Monet, Manet, Renoir and other impressionists. (p.1) IV.…show more content…
Monet, is famous for his paintings of gardens, and out of all the impressionists is, perhaps, the most well-known. V. The Impressionists are known for their paintings and their attention to color and light in nature, often using different colors for shadowing, and forgoing details of their subject in order to portray the subject in their impression of it. VI. Degas was more rogue in his works, especially since he paid very close attention to detail with his subjects. VII. What is most remarkable about Degas was his unwavering, life-long passion for art, he loved it until the day he died; it stirs a wondering of if we’ll love what we do until the day we die. Transition: Let’s begin with Degas’ early life. Body I. Degas was raised in the mid-1800s in a “wealthy, cultivated Parisian family” according to Richard Kendall (1987, p.7), a nationally renowned art historian, which meant Degas was surrounded by the fine arts, and even pushed to pursue them. A. Edgar Degas began his art career in an apprenticeship of sorts. He studied art under the influence of the Greats of the Renaissance: Da Vinci, Rafael, Michelangelo, and
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