Portrait of Edgar Degas made with pastel chalk on coloured cardboard paper. The French painter is famous for his paintings of ballet dancers, which he painted from 1867 onwards. He is considered part of Impressionism. This is mainly due to his participation in the first groundbreaking exhibition of the Impressionists in Paris in 1874. However, the artist preferred to see himself as an independent artist, independent of this movement.
My name is Helia Tayebi, living in beautiful historic Delft. Always stimulated and inspired by beauty and this as the main motivation to make visual art. People fascinate me the most, which results in the genre of my work: portraits. In doing so, I use existing or.. Read more…