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Artist: Georges Seurat
A gallery walk through Georges Seurat's The Circus (1891). The painting shows a female acrobat balanced on a galloping white horse while a ringmaster directs the performance and a clown frames the ring from the foreground. Looking closely at the composition and the dotted surface, we can trace how Seurat turns a live circus act into a demonstration of how the eye assembles a scene.
Artist: Georges Seurat
A spoken gallery visit to Georges Seurat's large park scene of Parisians at leisure, with attention to the picture's subject, composition and painted surface and to the limits of the supplied evidence.
Artist: Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat's Le Chahut shows a can-can performed on a music-hall stage, with musicians seen from behind in the foreground. The painting uses Pointillism, a technique of small dots or strokes of colour, to build a scene of rhythmic movement and artificial light.
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