"Four Dancers"This painting is brilliant in its composition, color, perspective. The four dancers are slowly backing out of the picture. Degas's positioning of figures, in the bottom left corner, creates a strong sense of movement in the painting. The background diminishes through perspective techniques. The unbalanced arrangement of subjects is balanced by the repetition of vibrant colors. The warm tomes in the women's costumes reappear in the background of the opposite corner. This image is typical in Degas's reoccurring theme: that "the stage is at all times artificially lit and our distance from it makes the colors become both loud and blurred, creating an impression of distance and glamorous dazzle." Degas doesn't give personality or expression to the faces of the dancers. To him, they are only and image prancing on the stage, they are their to entertain. He outlines the form and beauty of the dancers of the Paris Opera House. Because of that, the freedom of his brushwork is not tied down by detail, but he expresses only the glamour at the ballet.
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