Artist: Georges Seurat
Medium: oil
Style: Pointillism
Dimensions: 73"X59"
Date:1891
Georges Seurat was born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France. He was the youngest of three children in the family. His first art lesson was from his uncle and later on he began his formal art education around 1875. George Seurat was abstinent from alcohol, or any substance and stayed devoted to his art. His piece The Circus is famously known as his final art before his death in March 1891 which was left unfinished. The circus is currently display at Museum of Modern Art in New York.
"Painting is the art of hollowing a surface." -Georges Seurathttp://artquotes.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?authid=2315
When the painting was exhibited at the Salon des Independants in 1891, one critic observed that "everything in Circus achieves harmony through analogy, through the conciliation of opposites, conspiring towards a sense of gaiety: ascending lines, successive tone contrasts, pronounced dominance of orange, highlighted by a frame which creates an oppositions of tone and color with the whole."
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/cirque-7090.html?tx_commentaire_pi1%5Bfrom%5D=841&tx_commentaire_pi1%5BpidLi%5D=509&cHash=4d71123a71
This piece is showing a show at the circus with a lady on top of white horse and a man with a clown entertaining the audience, it fits well with our circus theme.
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