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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 golden section appears to govern Parade's geometric structure, though modern consensus is that Seurat never used this divine proportion in his work. 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 ...
Georges Seurat, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte", 1884, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Georges Seurat painted A Sunday Afternoon between May 1884 and March 1885, and from October 1885 to May 1886, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park [2] and concentrating on issues of colour, light, and form.
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 ...
Portrait of Seurat by Maximilien Luce. This is a list of notable paintings by Georges Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891). He is a Neo-Impressionist painter and together with Paul Signac noted for being the inventor of pointillism. [1] The listing follows the 1980 book Georges Seurat and uses its catalogue numbers. [2]
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: The Circus Parade ; Artist: Georges Seurat (1859–1891) Description: ... Georges Seurat catalogue raisonné, 1972, 188 ; The Met object ID: 437654 ;
List of paintings by Georges Seurat; B. Bathers at Asnières; C. ... Models (painting) P. Parade de cirque; S. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte; Y.