Post XVIII - Painting

 “… repulsively real ballet girls [but] magnificently brushed in.”

Anonymous 

The chosen painting is denominated as Dancers in Pink by Edgar Degas. Degas is often associated with images of ballerinas in various stages of relaxation, preparation and dance. In this painting, none of the dancers are looking at the viewer, making it clear that the interlocutor is getting inside of the ballerina's world, they're just visitors and cannot interrupt. 

Dancers in Pink
Edgar Degas
1880-1885
Oil on Canvas
Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT

The brush strokes on the tutus make them look soft and sweeping. Their dresses are in a pinkish-amaranth color making them full of weight. Degas represented poor young girls that struggled to become the fairies, nymphs and queens of the stage.