(1) Writing about Degas and the dancers whom he painted, Richardson asserts: The art historian John Richardson categorically calls Degas a “misogynist in a misogynistic society”.
Many researchers cannot forgive him for his conservative social views, quite typical of a well-off person in the 19th century, and the strange words he tended to use to describe his models. A Label of MisogynistĮdgar Degas was unlucky to get into the number of the geniuses whose legacy is now being re-evaluated by the standards of modern morality. You also discover another of Degas’ favorite subjects – naked women grooming themselves like animals. Then you find different reproductions of his pictures, scrutinize them, and wonder: his ballerinas seem to be deliberately depicted in the most inelegant poses! They are adjusting their slippers, scratching themselves, or rubbing their ankles. At first, you think he was a connoisseur of delicate beauty (otherwise why did he constantly paint ballerinas?) There are several stages in understanding Degas’ oeuvre.
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