17.+Edgar+Degas+(1834-1917)

**1. Birthplace **
Edgar Degas birth tok place in Paris,France.

**2. Art movement (for example, the Renaissance) **
He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.

**3. Where did they study or who did they apprentice with? **
Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, did not know whom his apprentice was but he did have a friendly rivalry with Edouard Manet.

**4. Who or what influenced their work? **
Michelangelo and Da Vinci influenced Edgar Degas.

**5. What made their work unique? Describe their style of artwork. **
He gets his inspiration from dancers particularly ballet. He captures them in different kinds of scenes almost where you can tell whats the theme of the show.

**6. Is there any interesting story of their life you can share? **
In 1894, [|Alfred Dreyfus], a young Jewish captain in the French military, was convicted of treason on spying charges. Although evidence that proved Dreyfus's innocence surfaced in 1896, rampant anti-Semitism kept him from being exonerated for another 10 years. With the country deeply divided between those in support of Dreyfus and those against him, Degas sided with those whose anti-Semitism blinded them to Dreyfus' innocence.

**7. Include a quote by or about the artist. **
" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."