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A little further with Degas
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Many of Degas’ paintings and drawings of racehorses have titles that name the same moment. The one at the Clark Museum is called “Before the Race. ” Degas, we are often told, wanted to capture the feeling of motion in painting. The moments before a horserace are astonishingly dense with motion, not the wild free motion of the race, but the expectation of it. I think people who love races love the combination – before and during – the anticipatory pausing steps, a taut potential that then gallops free. Great paintings work continually along the [...] more
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