The Dance Between Manet and Degas
about 5 months ago (12/11/2023)
The Dance Between Manet and Degas Skip to content Edgar Degas, "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet” (1868–69), oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 27 15/16 inches; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (photo courtesy Kitakyushu Municipal Museum) Punctuation as architecture, architecture as destiny. The floor-to-ceiling gash in the entrance wall of Manet/Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art physically separates the artists’ names and self-portraits from each other, relegating them to two different worlds: Manet’s restless brushwork skittering into painting’s future; Degas’s sculpted light embracing the memory of a neoclassical past. But the compare/contrast is a head fake.