need painting interpretation??

[the purple black fairy]

here's another one i don't get
http://www.canvasreplicas.com/images/Madame%20Dietz%20Monnin%20Edgar%20Degas.jpg
she looks like she's a little girl playing dress up but it's actually a woman.

by edgar degas.

[Courtney]

http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=410

here you go.,

[Ghostmom]

Degas liked to paint the night life-often a seedy side of it of course in the bars. This was probably an elder patron-

[no name]

what's to get? there's a tension as a child becomes an adult and then a child again, old and drunk or young, or wonton or innocent. we can't tell what's amiss, but it doesn't look quite right. it is discomfitting. what do YOU think?