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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 ...
Contemporary circus (or cirque contemporain in French-speaking countries) is a contested term in circus studies. [1] In this article, it is used in contrast to the term 'traditional circus', combining with the genre elsewhere disambiguated as new circus or nouveau cirque. Many circus scholars prefer to separate these styles, as elaborated in ...
Art historian Marilyn R. Brown argued that these changes could be a reflection of Degas's anxiety about his own racial identity. [4] There is also a debate about whether Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando is a portrait of Miss La La or a genre painting of the circus. Miss La La is the only figure shown in this painting.
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 ...
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.
Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: / ˈsɜːrɑː, - ə / SUR-ah, -ə, US: / sʊˈrɑː / suu-RAH; [1][2][3][4][5] French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; [6] 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper ...
Cirque du Soleil performing Dralion in Vienna, 2004. New Circus (originally known as cirque nouveau) is a performing arts movement that originated in the 1970s in Australia, Canada, France, [38] the West Coast of the United States, and the United Kingdom. New Circus combines traditional circus skills and theatrical techniques to convey a story ...
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.