When
: 17 September – 11 December 2011
Where
: Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Edweard Muybridge, ‘Animal Locomotion, Woman dancing (fancy), plate 187′, 1884-86
In the autumn of 2011 the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition focusing on Edgar Degas’s preoccupation with movement as an artist of the dance. Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement will trace the development of the artist’s ballet imagery throughout his career, from the documentary mode of the early 1870s to the sensuous expressiveness of his final years.
The exhibition will be the first to present Degas’s progressive engagement with the figure in movement in the context of parallel advances in photography and early film; indeed, the artist was keenly aware of these technological developments and often directly involved with them.
