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Georges Seurat
(2nd Dec, 1859 - 29th Mar, 1891)
Le cirque
1891
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Photo (C) Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
musée d'Orsay
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Photo (C) Musée d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
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Keywords:
balanced
circus
Neoimpressionism
track (circus)
performance (theater)
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About the artwork
Title:
Le cirque
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
19th century
Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
1855 x 1525
Inventory number:
RF2511
Location:
musée d'Orsay
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About the author(s)
Author:
Georges Seurat
Also known as:
Georges Pierre Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seurat
ז׳ורז׳ סרא
Zhorzh Sera
Hsiu-la
George Pierre Seurat
Born:
2nd Dec, 1859
Dead:
29th Mar, 1891
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Georges-Pierre Seurat
(French:
[ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]
; 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…
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