Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement!

I visited the Royal Academy this afternoon to see the 'Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement' exhibition.
The exhibition of 85 Degas paintings, sculptures, pastels, drawings, prints and photographs also includes photographs by his contemporaries and examples of early film. It brings together selected material from public and private collections in Europe and North America including celebrated and little-known works by Edgar Degas including the wonderful 'The Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen'. The exhibition explores the links between Degas’s highly original way of viewing and recording dance and the experimental photography by Jules-Etienne Marey and Eadweard Muybridge and film-making by pioneers such as the Lumière brothers. The exhibition shows that Degas was far more than merely the creator of beautiful images of the ballet, but a modern, radical artist. If you get the chance  go and see it!
Chris