French painter's fascination with movement to be focus of Royal Academy's canvas and film exhibitionAn exhibition on Degas and his fascination with ballet dancers " surprisingly, the first to be staged in the UK " was today announced as one of the highlights of the Royal Academy's 2011 programme.Edgar Degas is often seen as a populist painter of chocolate-box scenes of horse racing and pretty ballet dancers, but the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AM on November 18, 2010