Little Dancer Aged Fourteen - a photo on Flickriver

            I first read up on Edgar Degas after reading The Painted Girls, a sad fictional tale on Marie van Goethem's life.  

When I entered the Degas gallery at the Met,  right before me was the plain (and controversially considered ugly) bronze statue of Marie van Goethem.  

My art knowledge is slim to none but I can let you know that Degas is the one known for paintings of Parisian ballet girls.  On the surface, you often find flocks of pretty dancing girls.   Look closely and you'll find something else. Every expression, every body movement tells a story -- excitement, exhaustion, boredom, jealousy.  Even the side characters are doing something interesting.  

And then I realize, his works are like candid photos.

Not much to the photo here, this one's really just for me. 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York

Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Carnegie Hill (show map)

Taken on: June 2, 2015

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Camera: Olympus E-M10, f/3.7, 1/60 sec, 17mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

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