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SEURAT, Georges

Featured Paintings in Detail

(2)

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SEURAT, GeorgesCircus Sideshow1887-88Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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SEURAT, GeorgesCircus Sideshow (detail)1887-88Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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SEURAT, GeorgesCircus Sideshow (detail)1887-88Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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SEURAT, GeorgesCircus Sideshow (detail)1887-88Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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SEURAT, GeorgesCircus Sideshow (detail)1887-88Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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SEURAT, GeorgesCircus Sideshow (detail)1887-88Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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SEURAT, GeorgesLe Chahut1889-90Oil on canvas, 172 x 141 cmRijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

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SEURAT, GeorgesLe Chahut (detail)1889-90Oil on canvas, 172 x 141 cmRijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

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SEURAT, GeorgesLe Chahut (detail)1889-90Oil on canvas, 172 x 141 cmRijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

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SEURAT, GeorgesLe Chahut (detail)1889-90Oil on canvas, 172 x 141 cmRijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

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SEURAT, GeorgesLe Chahut (detail)1889-90Oil on canvas, 172 x 141 cmRijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

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SEURAT, GeorgesLe Chahut (detail)1889-90Oil on canvas, 172 x 141 cmRijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

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SEURAT, GeorgesThe Circus1891Oil on canvas, 180 x 148 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

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SEURAT, GeorgesThe Circus (detail)1891Oil on canvas, 180 x 148 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

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SEURAT, GeorgesThe Circus (detail)1891Oil on canvas, 180 x 148 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

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SEURAT, GeorgesThe Circus (detail)1891Oil on canvas, 180 x 148 cmMusée d'Orsay, Paris

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SEURAT, GeorgesThe Circus

Although this painting was still not completed at the painter's early death in 1891, Seurat had already exhibited it that year in the Salon des Indépendents. It was intended to bring home clearly the principles of his art that he had developed in the previous ten

years and at the same time to emphasize his leading role in modern painting.

The circus was that of the Cirque Fernando, not far from Seurat's studio. To clarify his depiction Seurat left most of the seats empty behind the artiste riding into the arena The work has something of the quality of a poster.

The Cirque Fernando had its pitch on the Boulevard Rochechouart. In 1894 it was redesigned as a theatre. Included among its regular guests were Lautrec, and also Degas, Renoir and Seurat, who decorated the rooms with their paintings.

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SEURAT, GeorgesCircus Sideshow

In the mid-1880 the depiction of suburban pleasures favoured by the Impressionists gave way to pictures of urban entertainment, as writers, poets, and songwriters turned to acrobats, clowns, and café singers for subject matter. Seurat's interest in urban entertainment culminated in Circus Sideshow. The scene is a sideshow given in the evening on the street to lure passersby into purchasing tickets to

the circus. But instead of being gay and festive, the performance is calm and brooding. Using a fine brush, Seurat has covered the canvas with a myriad of dark violet-blue, orange, and green dots of paint. Although his research in optics was purportedly scientific, the forms are endowed with mystery. Figures seem to levitate in the moody gaslight, musicians and performers are eerily geometric

and alienated from the audience, and railings suggest ramps that lead nowhere. In this world where nothing is certain to the eye, Seurat implies a parity between fact and fantasy.

Circus Sideshow represents the first important painting Seurat devoted to a scene of popular entertainment. In effect, it sets the stage for his last great figure compositions, La Chahut of 1889–90 (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo) and Circus of 1890–91 (Musée

d'Orsay, Paris).

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SEURAT, GeorgesLe Chahut

In 1887-90 Seurat was working on the Circus Parade, Le Chahut and the not quite finished Circus. It was a Degas world. The effects of stage lighting, overlapping and cropped foreground figures, and a certain malice in the grotesque way types of people or posture

are presented, are related to Degas. However, the differences are greater: a sense of ceremony accompanied by distortions and grimaces, motion arrested in mechanical parallel attitudes, a strict patterning of spaces, and an emphatically enigmatic flavour despite the seemingly

straightforward attention-getting.

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SEURAT, Georges

Georges-Pierre Seurat ( 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman.

He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually supposed to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility; on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an

almost mathematical precision of mind.

His large-scale work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of

late 19th-century painting.