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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 ...
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]
Place des Arts, facing Sainte-Catherine Street. 2-22 Sainte-Catherine Est. Promenade des Artistes . Quartier des Spectacles (French pronunciation: [kaʁtje de spɛktakl]) is an arts and entertainment district located in the eastern section of Downtown Montreal, designed as a centre for Montreal's cultural events and festivals.
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 ...
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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 catalogue raisonné, 1972, 188 ; The Met object ID: 437654 ; Google Arts & Culture asset ID: TQFJqSCHs_fzqg ; Artstor artwork ID: 18596794 ; Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide (2012 edition) Authority file: