Talk:Edgar Degas

message: I'm concerned with this part: "...his anti-Semitism became apparent by the mid-1870s. His 1879 painting Portraits at the Stock Exchange is widely regarded as anti-Semitic, with the facial features of the banker taken directly from the anti-Semitic cartoons rampant in Paris at the time.[49]" 
My objections are these: 1) The work cannot be widely regarded as anti-Semitic because it isn't widely regarded at all. Its claim to fame is being a minor work by a famous artist. 2) The connection between anti-Semitic caricatures and this work of art are not established, they're speculated.
The link is essentially a blogpost. The critical source by Paula Hymen, "The French Jewish Community from Emancipation to the Dreyfus Affair," isn't even properly cited therein. I think this short section needs to be re-written with proper citations, heavily pruned, or removed altogether.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by MusselParty (talk • contribs) 02:30, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Early Anti-Semitism

message: Isn't possible to add in a more personal section of the life of Degas. About the time and culture of the Paris, in combination of the impressionist movement, for example. Especially his view of women is very important for his work and the time period, there is absolutely no reference to that.
I find the amouth of sculptures, found back on wiki, pour.
Also the links sculpture and painting in the last section does not forward to those of his, maybe someone knows how to correct this. --Grim Reaper2 15:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life of Degas 

message: To my mind a great many of the citations in this article are superfluous. Anybody wanting to confirm that Degas' family was fairly wealthy, or that he once met Ingres, or helped organize the 1st Impressionist exhibit, could check the index of any one of the books listed as references & find the right passage instantly. When facts are neither recondite nor disputed, an excess of cites just disrupts the flow of text. If nobody objects I propose to do some pruning. Ewulp 06:27, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lot of cites 

message: Would like to propose the following articles for external links: Realistic Painting - Impressionism, Degas - http://www.oldandsold.com/articles34/french-art-18.shtml Smithville 00:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: It says on these sites  that he has middle names Germain and Hilaire. But some sites like this one  use it as an address or as his first name. Alus 22:01, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good eye! You're right about this--the edit history shows that his full name used to be in the article but was inexplicably removed sometime last spring & nobody has noticed til now. Most sources checked have it as Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, so that's what we'll go with. Ewulp 23:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names? 

message: I've removed the section on the New Orleans house where Degas stayed with family for five months, not  two years as the link stated. What might be useful here, folded into the career section, would be mention of the New Orleans stay, and the work resulting from it. The house itself, apparently now a bed and breakfast, might merit a footnote if it is not attached to a spam site, but not a separate heading with several paragraphs of content. Shall we have a distinct heading for each building he lived and created in? JNW 13:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: House in New Orleans

message: See the discussion over here. I'd like to keep it in one place. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please stop removing legitimate links, JNW 

message: A rather oversized gallery of images has grown on the article. I believe that's what Commons if for. -- Infrogmation (talk) 18:29, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Gallery

message: is there anyway we can ad something on this painting to the article?  this is all the info i currently have on it, maybe you can tell me if its appropriate and where? http://discovermagazine.com/photos/12-darwins-dystopias-ghastly-visions-inspired-by-the-theory-of-evolution Killemall22 (talk) 15:56, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for finding this--I found a place in the article to add the link. Ewulp (talk) 22:12, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  head of a criminal 

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message: There are 257 Artworks of Edgar Degas on ArtGalleryEnc.com with information about the year, material, dimensions, museums added for each Artwork.
Vv.Grecu
:Stop adding spamlinks to this encyclopedia, thank you...Modernist (talk) 21:33, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I am sorry, what kind of spam is that? What other information do you want me to write? Or how it should be written? Reply please.
Vv.Grecu  —Preceding undated comment added 21:37, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Anything that you add to articles should be directly relevant to the text in the article - as a reference...Modernist (talk) 21:40, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  257 Artworks of Edgar Degas 

message: The recent Degas sculpture controversy came up at Yank Barry, but it's really a Degas issue. Some references:
* The whole area of Degas bronzes is confusing, because Degas never made any bronzes. All "Degas bronzes" were made after his death, from wax models that weren't intended to be masters for bronzes at all. So there's much disagreement over what an "authentic" Degas bronze is. Degas' work is now out of copyright, so anybody can make copies.
* The Jerusalem Post mentions that the Degas Sculpture Project plan was to manufacture 29 sets of the 73 bronzes, using the newly discovered plaster masters..
* Bloomberg reports that art experts are now afraid to speak out on this subject due to fear of litigation.   
* Yank Barry, as a potential buyer, was in litigation with the Degas Sculpture Project. The Degas Sculpture Project was cranking out bronzes from a set of plaster masters supposedly discovered recently.  Both sides settled their lawsuit before the issue of authenticity got to court.  
* There's a 3D model of the Little Dancer and another Degas sculpture is on Thingiverse, so now anybody with access to a 3D printer can make one.  
If anyone wants to update the article, go for it. I don't have the art expertise. John Nagle (talk) 05:15, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks—those are some good links. The Yank Barry angle is probably extraneous here but the William Cohan articles will be helpful in sharpening the prose. Ewulp (talk) 03:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The Valsuni Foundry, which was cranking out those questionable bronzes, went bust last month. John Nagle (talk) 22:16, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks once again! The article has been updated. Ewulp (talk) 10:08, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Degas sculpture controversy 

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