Edgar Degas

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after he began to let him self go. Degas' collection of repeated poses and postures speaks to his preoccupation with texture, color, and form. As Degas' subject matter became more contemporary, so did his artistic style. there firsts exhibitions, but his individual choice of subject matter, handling of composition, and emphasis of drawing distinguished his works from theirs. Early on, Degas presents people as individuals, whereas works from the mid-1870s on categorize women in particular according to their professions. He has numerous paintings of jockeys, dancers, laundresses and prostitutes. Some paintings displayed there include "The glass of Absinthe", "Laundresses", and "Prima Ballerina". The laundresses, milliners, and dancers represent types rather than specific individuals. He copied works by earlier artists and executed his own history paintings, portraits, and scenes of daily life.

From the mid-1850s through the mid-1870s Degas explored many types of subject matter. in New York, "Pouting", and "Women with Chrysanthemums" are on display for all to see.

In the later years of his life, despite failing eyesight, he continues to paint his women models in varied, unarranged poses.

During the last years of his life, he was seen walking through the streets of Paris, ignoring the traffic. He

stopped caring for his dress or trimming his beard.