How the Impressionists Captured Life on Paper
about 9 months ago (12/07/2023)
How the Impressionists Captured Life on Paper Skip to content Edgar Degas, "Dancers on a Bench" (c. 1898), pastel on tracing paper; lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council (photo © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection; all images courtesy Royal Academy of Art) LONDON — Is a work on paper a lesser, and perhaps even a smaller , thing? I mean by comparison with a work in oils, a painting on canvas? Works on canvas often look so large and so grandiose, as if they are there to be bowed to, or awestruck by.