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Edgar Degas

I need your views on Pablo Picasso, Edgar degas and Van Gogh?

I am doing a big project for art history and i need some views on these artist. The way they saw and presented the world around us in thear art, the way in which they lead their lives and in general your opinions of them

Vincent Van Gogh,presents you with more than a few questions,his use of colour was and still is a unique experience.he used colours close together to make a colour that you could mix on a palette,but instead mixes in your eye.
He was never going to be famous in his lifetime,but understood from an inner sense that his works would be prized.Maybe his alledged instabilities are just that,but maybe he thought so much , that painting , was the only release.

His life was troubled ,mainly by his own doing, but he knew he was never alone,the presence of a dead brother (previously called vincent) always haunted him.He had difficulties with his grasp on reality in living,but little difficulty in expressing that in art.
He could be kind considerate or destructive and violent,rage or sage and all in a single day.
He loved passionately and despised in equal measure,and sometimes took that out on himself.
my opinion is that we all recognise a bit of ourselves in Vincent and not unhealthily so!
My opinion of his work is that no other work has ever and will ever surpass it.

Edgar Degas,i know only from/via the "real" impressionist's viewpoint.He could be seen to be mean spirited and aloof.
Had more than a passing interest in some of his models.
His work is undeniably clever and deserves the recognition it get's , but for me he is a tad mundane (my opinion)
But still he gives us glimpses of a world past and of views of that world that had meaning and passion for him.

Pablo picasso,well i at first hated him and his works,until i saw past the drivel espoused by my art tutor,once i saw his early real works,i could then view the later ones with a wry smile.
Did you know he would give away paper to students with his signature on them,so that poor students could sell any drawing to pay their way.(no idea if that is actually true or another publicity stunt,but that is what i was told by a tutor who idolised Picasso)
Was it also he, who stole a work and then dumped it in a river.
go look him up and read what is true and false if you can fiqure that!.

In my opinion from these three i would say V.V.G is 1st for my eyes,P.Picasso 2nd and E.Degas 3rd.

Now if it were a list of more artists i would probably rate Vincents in the top ten.Picasso in the mid 30s and E.Degas in the lower 50s on my list of 100 best.But it's all down to opinion.

Art is nowadays opinion , by opinionated people for less opinionated people, how i envy the less opinionated !

Discovering art and works of art is what it is all about,looking into an artists life can be interesting,but it can and has, ruined some works for my eye's,and yet it has elevated other's.
There's the dilemma

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