What would Edgar Degas' paintings have looked like with the technology of instantaneous photographer Eadweard Muybridge or chronophotographer Étienne-Jules Marey?
200x50cm, Acrylic on Canvas
The idea for this piece was to take a relevant historical artwork and modernise it.
Following the invention of the camera in the times of the Impressionism, I explored the studies of the instantaneous photographer Eadweard Muybridge, and the chronophotographer Étienne-Jules Marey, wondering how Edgar Degas paintings would look like with modernised technology.
The new image shows the choreography that might have occurred before the ballerina reached her final pose to the very right, the one that Degas originally captured in his painting.
