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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 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]
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: 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
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 ...
Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat.Seurat's most renowned masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, marked the beginning of this movement when it first made its appearance at an exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants (Salon des Indépendants) in Paris. [1]
Sunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (painted, 1884–1886).
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).