I think people may find this interesting. About five years ago I was tasked with hiring for my division. We were in a hiring spurt and I had come off a project and had a little more time than some of the other managers and we needed newbies. Actually my boss at the time had hired a few engineers and frankly had done a terrible job. We were looking to change our age demographics to get us younger. We had a sparse number of young engineers and in the long run that’s not good for the organization. ...
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas- 1834 –1917 Recent discussions on the board pertaining to Mary Cassatt, Jean Forain, Berthe Morisot... even Utamaro lead me to thin that we have all been skirting around the one giant figure that links all of these artists together. I am speaking of Edgar Degas. Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) stands along side Monet as one of the two most influential artists of the second half of the 19th century. Degas was born into a relatively ...
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas- 1834 –1917, pt. 2 The subject for which Degas is most well known is almost certainly that of the ballet. The ballet offered the artist the ideal situation in which to observe the human body in motion. It also presented a world of the theater... the artificial... the magical... the wondrous costumes and stage sets: ...
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas- 1834 –1917, pt. 3 Part of the reason for Degas' explorations of sculpture was the fact that his eyesight began to worsen with age. He soon abandoned working back stage or in the ballet schools and spent all of his time sequestered in his studio with a few long-term models who allowed the artist to freely feel their limbs and torsos as he struggles to grasp what he once saw with such clarity. He became even more anti-social as a result of his poor ...
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