Czesław Miłosz wobec malarstwa Edgara Degasa

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CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ ON EDGAR DEGAS’S PAINTING
Edgar Degas’s art is the subject of many poetic and prose statements of Czesław Miłosz. In Degas’s painting Miłosz perceived the richness of themes relating to human customs but also—rony and pity for the human reality. The poet was especially fascinated with women from late
works of the French artist; he wrote about them in his poem “Pastele Degasa”. In Miłosz’s reflection the women of Degas are representatives of Nature and priestess of Eros, as well as fragile human beings, who can’t be rescued by the poet from their transience nor from “the abyss”.