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Article: 'Degas: Beyond Impressionism,' at the Art Institute of Chicago.(Originated from Dallas Morning News)
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- October 7, 1996
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CHICAGO _ ``Degas: Beyond Impressionism'' is a big show on a limited topic _ the late paintings, pastels and sculptures of Edgar Degas as coda and counterpoint to his more expansive and familiar impressionist works.
In his early 50s, the impressionist frenzy having subsided, Degas abandonednarrative and precise social documentation for intense explorations of color, line and figure. Withdrawing further into his studio, he worked mainly from memory and imagination, returning obsessively to the same few subjects. His compositions became loose, his drawing quick and rough.
The standard histories describe the aging Degas as despondent and adrift, ...