File:Georges Seurat, Parade de cirque, with golden mean overlay.jpg

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Georges Seurat: The Circus Parade  wikidata:Q3823444 reasonator:Q3823444
Artist
Georges Seurat  (1859–1891)  wikidata:Q34013 q:en:Georges Seurat
 
Georges Seurat
Description French painter, drawer, lithographer and designer
Date of birth/death 2 December 1859 Edit this at Wikidata 29 March 1891 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work location
Brest (1879), Paris (November 1880), Burgundy (1881), Paris (1882-1886), Normandy (1885), Honfleur (1886), Paris (1886), Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (July 1888), Le Crotoy (1889), Gravelines (1890), Paris (1890-1891)
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artist QS:P170,Q34013
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Title
Parade de cirque (Circus Sideshow), with golden mean overlay (section d'or, so1 - so4) and 4 : 6 ratio (by Coldcreation)
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 1887 and 1888
date QS:P571,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 99.7 cm (39.2 in); width: 149.9 cm (59 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,99.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,149.9U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
61.101.17
Credit line bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960
Notes The golden section appears to govern Parade's geometric structure, though modern consensus is that Seurat never used this divine proportion in his work. Parade is shown here divided horizontally into fourths and vertically into sixths. The 4 : 6 ratio corresponds to the dimensions of the canvas, which is one and one-half times wider than its vertical dimension. The axes painted by Seurat do not correspond precisely to the golden section, 1 : 1.6, as might have been expected (yellow lines, so1 - so4). Rather, the axes painted in the composition correspond to basic mathematical divisions (simple ratios that appear to approximate the golden section). See Parade de cirque (Circus Sideshow) and citations within.
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