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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.
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).
The axes painted by Seurat do not correspond precisely to the golden section, 1 : 1.6, as might have been expected (yellow lines, so1 - so4). Rather, the axes painted in the composition correspond to basic mathematical divisions (simple ratios that appear to approximate the golden section). See Parade de cirque (Circus Sideshow) and citations ...
Pages in category "Paintings by Georges Seurat" ... (Seurat) M. Models (painting) P. Parade de cirque; S. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte; Y.
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 ...
Le Chahut is an oil painting on canvas measuring 170 by 141 cm (67 x 55 in). Seurat employed a Divisionist style, with pointillist dots of color. The work is dominated by a color scheme that tends toward the red end of the spectrum, of earth tones that draw from a palette of browns, tans, warm grays, and blues, interspersed with not just the primary colors (reds and yellows), nor even with the ...
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.