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Degas Ballerina - Edgar Degas "The Green Dancer" Ballet Dancer 1879 Pastel Edgar Degas painted "The Green Dancer" in 1879. Degas was a French impressionist artist, who was known for his paintings of beautiful ballet dancers. Degas ballet dancers were subjects of Degas paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. Edgar Degas is a great artist of the impressionist period, producing master works of art based on ballet dancers, as well as other subjects. Degas was also known as an anti impressionist, as he rejected the traditional impressionist use of plein air painting (painting outside), and his style was different than traditional impressionists. He painted many beautiful ballet dancers in his lifetime, including this lovely painting of green ballet dancers, as well as other blue ballet dancers, white ballet dancers, and pink ballet dancers.