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nprfreshair: Lloyd Schwartz went to see Degas and the Nude at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He says the paintings are “full of the the awkwardness of real life.” “After I saw this show, I returned to Degas and was all the more moved. But I thought maybe ‘nude’ is really the wrong word for Degas’ images. These figures aren’t so much nude as naked. Poor, bare, forked animals, as Shakespeare might have called them. Not godlike at all, but all too heartbreakingly human.” - Lloyd Schwartz. This is a wonderful, well-written (and well-read, hey-o radio!) story on Degas, forever my favorite artist. View Larger

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Lloyd Schwartz went to see Degas and the Nude at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He says the paintings are “full of the the awkwardness of real life.”

“After I saw this show, I returned to Degas and was all the more moved. But I thought maybe ‘nude’ is really the wrong word for Degas’ images. These figures aren’t so much nude as naked. Poor, bare, forked animals, as Shakespeare might have called them. Not godlike at all, but all too heartbreakingly human.”

- Lloyd Schwartz. This is a wonderful, well-written (and well-read, hey-o radio!) story on Degas, forever my favorite artist.

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    I have a book of Degas artwork that I purchased from the Getty Museum in L.A. back when I was in High School. It was a...
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    this was really lovely