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  2. Parade de cirque - Wikipedia

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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 de cirque represents the sideshow (or parade) of ...

  3. The Circus (Seurat) - Wikipedia

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    185 cm × 152 cm (72.8 in × 59.8 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Website. Museum page. The Circus (French: Le Cirque) is an oil on canvas painting by Georges Seurat. It was his last painting, made in a Neo-Impressionist style in 1890–91, and remained unfinished at his death in March 1891. The painting is located at the Musée d'Orsay in ...

  4. Cirque - Wikipedia

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    A cirque (French: [siʁk]; from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre -like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic: coire, meaning a pot or cauldron) [1] and cwm (Welsh for 'valley'; pronounced [kʊm]). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.

  5. Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando - Wikipedia

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    National Gallery, London. Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando is an oil on canvas painting by the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas. Painted in 1879 and exhibited at the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris that same year, [1] it is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London. It is Degas's only circus painting, and Miss La ...

  6. Le Grand Cirque (1968 painting) - Wikipedia

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    Description. On this painting, Chagall focuses on the ring or center stage as a mythical winged figures looks down upon the spectacle from on high. [ 1] The subject of circus was dear to the artist. [ 2] Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks. [ 3] He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human ...

  7. Scene de Cirque - Wikipedia

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    Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 72.7 cm × 91.7 cm (28.6 in × 36.1 in) Owner. Private collection. Scène De Cirque (circa 1970) is an oil on canvas painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall.

  8. Contemporary circus - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary circus, by this definition, is a genre of performing arts developed in the late 20th century in which a story, theme, mood or question is conveyed through traditional circus skills. For fans of animal performance in circus, this genre could arguably be found more akin to Variety (in American vaudeville) as animals are rarely used ...

  9. Commedia dell'arte - Wikipedia

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    Harlequin achieved more prominence during this period. It is possible that this type of improvised acting was passed down the Italian generations until the 17th century, when it was revived as a professional theatrical technique. However, as currently used, the term commedia dell'arte was coined in the mid-18th century.