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Parade de cirque (English: Circus Sideshow) is an 1887-88 Neo-Impressionist painting by Georges Seurat.It was first exhibited at the 1888 Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants (titled Parade de cirque, cat. no. 614) in Paris, where it became one of Seurat's least admired works.
Parade is shown here divided horizontally into fourths and vertically into sixths. The 4 : 6 ratio corresponds to the dimensions of the canvas, which is one and one-half times wider than its vertical dimension. The axes painted by Seurat do not correspond precisely to the golden section, 1 : 1.6, as might have been expected (yellow lines, so1 ...
The painting was Seurat's third major work treating the theme of the circus, after his Parade (Circus sideshow) of 1887–88 and Le Chahut of 1889–90. It depicts a female performer standing on a horse at the Circus Fernando (renamed the Circus Médrano in 1890, after its most famous clown).
Georges Seurat first studied art at the École Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin, near his family's home in the boulevard Magenta, which was run by the sculptor Justin Lequien. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 1878, he moved on to the École des Beaux-Arts where he was taught by Henri Lehmann , and followed a conventional academic training, drawing from casts ...
Georges Seurat: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte: 23 April 2005; Gustav Klimt: The Kiss : 30 April 2005; The Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece (2006) Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper : 13 April 2006; Salvador Dalí: Christ of Saint John of the Cross : 14 April 2006; Piero della Francesca: The Resurrection : 17 April 2006
The Seine seen from La Grande Jatte [111] National Gallery, London 176 15.7 × 25 More images: 1888 La Seine à la Grande-Jatte [112] Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels 177 65 × 82 More images: 1887 Study for "The Circus Parade" [113] Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle, Zürich 187 16.5 × 26 More images: 1887 to 1888 The Circus Parade [114]
Detail from Seurat's Parade de cirque, 1889, showing the contrasting dots of paint which define Pointillism. Pointillism (/ ˈ p w æ̃ t ɪ l ɪ z əm /, also US: / ˈ p w ɑː n-ˌ ˈ p ɔɪ n-/) [1] is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.
Paul Sérusier – The Talisman, the Aven River at the Bois d'Amour; Georges Seurat – 19 paintings including The Circus; Paul Signac – 16 paintings including Women at the Well; Alfred Sisley – 46 paintings including Inondation at Port-Marly; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – 18 paintings including La Toilette; Félix Vallotton – Misia at ...