Degas

If Degas, painter, engraver, sculptor, photographer and collector, is attached to the great movement of the Impressionists, he only finds his place in it in the name of the freedom to paint advocated by the group. Although he was the most ardent instigator of the Impressionist exhibitions (1874-1886), he was never able to conform either to this movement or to others, thus choosing his own artistic path. He was one of the first artists to devote himself to scenes of contemporary life, thus escaping the discomfort created by the conformism of the time, freeing his works from the social and narrative obligations of his time