Le Chahut
Artist: Georges Seurat
Year Composed: 1890
Artistic Movement: Post-Impressionism
Nationality: France
Floor Found in Château: Third Garden
Year Composed: 1890
Artistic Movement: Post-Impressionism
Nationality: France
Floor Found in Château: Third Garden
About the Artwork
Known as The Can-can in English, Georges Seurat's Le Chahut shows the same pointillism technique employed within his Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1885). The scene places the audience exactly as that: an audience seeing a dancing troupe performing the can-can while an orchestra plays in the pit below the stage. The dots of color seemingly blend together to form a vibrant, moving scene drawn together by the movement of the dancers with the visual musicality performed by the orchestra.
About the Artist
Georges-Pierre Seurat was a Post-Impressionist painter born in Paris in 1859. He is known for the implementation of two unique techniques: chromoluminarism and pointillism. Chromoluminarism (also called divisionism) is where colors are separated by blocks or dots within the painting as opposed to blending the colors. Pointillism is the creation of small dots of paint to create textures, figures, and objects. These unique implementations can be viewed within Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1885), Young Woman Powdering Herself (1890), and The Circus (1891).
About the Movement
Le Chahut was composed in Post-Impressionist Age of art. As a subset of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was mostly a French movement toward the end of the 19th Century (or the latter decades in the 1800s). As a way to counter the Impressionist use of naturalism in their light and color, Post-Impressionist artists used a more abstract color palette, where the colors were more symbolic than natural. Some of the most famous Post-Impressionist artists included Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Vincent van Gogh.
Location of Original Work of Art: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Known as The Can-can in English, Georges Seurat's Le Chahut shows the same pointillism technique employed within his Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1885). The scene places the audience exactly as that: an audience seeing a dancing troupe performing the can-can while an orchestra plays in the pit below the stage. The dots of color seemingly blend together to form a vibrant, moving scene drawn together by the movement of the dancers with the visual musicality performed by the orchestra.
About the Artist
Georges-Pierre Seurat was a Post-Impressionist painter born in Paris in 1859. He is known for the implementation of two unique techniques: chromoluminarism and pointillism. Chromoluminarism (also called divisionism) is where colors are separated by blocks or dots within the painting as opposed to blending the colors. Pointillism is the creation of small dots of paint to create textures, figures, and objects. These unique implementations can be viewed within Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1885), Young Woman Powdering Herself (1890), and The Circus (1891).
About the Movement
Le Chahut was composed in Post-Impressionist Age of art. As a subset of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was mostly a French movement toward the end of the 19th Century (or the latter decades in the 1800s). As a way to counter the Impressionist use of naturalism in their light and color, Post-Impressionist artists used a more abstract color palette, where the colors were more symbolic than natural. Some of the most famous Post-Impressionist artists included Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Vincent van Gogh.
Location of Original Work of Art: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands