Edgar Degas

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

At the first sight, his works seem to dedicate only beauty of ballet.
He draw delightful faces of dancers with blushing cheek and pale face and wearing lavish tutu.
Also his painting captured dramatic moment of dancing in unusual view and angle.
So, It looks just typical impressionist's works or decoration painting.
However, He could not be classified as impressionism painter who paints only what they see, because he draw something beyond sight or what he see.
He hided something by drawing gentleman who stands back from ballerina for criticizing upper-class in the end of 19century, more specifically, about patron-client relation ship between Noble man and ballerina.