Edgar Degas was known as the master of painting dynamic characters. He was able to accurately capture the striking
moments like the camera’s shutter. A lot of ballet works he painted reflected the dancer life from different aspects. The ballet dancers Degas painted were mostly unknown dancers.
In 19th century, in French society, only the poor people were willing to take their daughters to the ballet. After the long-term and strict dancing training, these girls had the opportunities to perform on stage. The competition between the leading roles was very fierce and these girls were mostly the supporting roles who had the extremely low pay. Some were eliminated and misery. Dance Class at the Opera was an exquisite work and appeared to be very normal compared to other ballet works he painted. Therefore this Edgar Degas painting was less considered as his masterpiece. The alluring miniature had the good composition and good depth of space expansion. The classical and meticulous depiction and all the beautiful postures of the dancers were emphasized. The main tones were gray, gray blue and dark yellow. When we saw this painting, we would feel it was not a masterpiece.
Dance Class at the Opera was portrayed charmingly. The well-proportioned composition, profound space, delicate classism and graceful postures of the dancers were shown all. The main tones of gray blue and dark yellow were shown in the dancer like a bride. Their feather-like and transparent skirt was like the frost, or the light snow. The pink toes gathered all the poetic languages. It seemed that as long as the shoes and the skirt were worn, even the ordinary woman became a piece of flying cloud.
