Graduation Year
2023
Document Type
Senior Thesis
Degree
Bachelor of Arts
Primary Major
Visual Studies
Thesis Advisor
Leslie Ross, PhD
Abstract
Dance in art can be seen in paintings created by artists such as Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Pierre Auguste-Renoir (1841-1919), Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), William Blake (1757-1827), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), and Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist who was known for his work of arts featuring ballerinas. Pierre Auguste-Renoir was also a French Impressionist artist like Degas, but he was more so known for his real-life scenario paintings. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, a French artist was known for his Art Nouveau and Post-Impressionist style. Toulouse-Lautrec illustrated some posters and paintings on Moulin Rouge. William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. His work of art was from the Romanticism period, John Singer Sargent was an American artist who was successful in portrait painting. Henri Matisse, another French artist, but a visual artist was known for his Post-Impressionism and Expressionism artwork and also did Fauvism and Primitivism pieces. Dance in art first became popular in the 19th century. Impressionist artists captured movement, energy, and emotion. Each of these artists of the 19th and 20th century depicted dance in art by their style of art, rhythm, line, color, balance, and space.