Edgar Degas.

Edgar Degas is an artist I chose to study in relevance to the previous capturing of motion in paintings that we have briefly looked at. Degas was an artist I came across when conducting research on my Context Issues and Practice essay, when looking into Wassily Kandinsky and the abstract movement.
Degas was a realist artist who progressed in capturing the movement of ballet as an underlying theme, his charcoal and pencil drawings along with his complex oil compositions captured the movement intended in two dimensional form due to the blurred lines and colours used. I found research into this artist interesting especially after having been given the project of 'Things to Notice' in the past.
Degas' feathered, weaker lines represent past movements taken by the ballet dancers involved in the compositions, and often draw the viewer's eye around the negative space and through the movements created with the implications of the lines.