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      • Pierrot is the eternal ‘outsider,’ an aspect which has rendered him particularly compelling to the expressive mind. He embodies the solitude that often accompanies artistic genius and the isolation felt in the pursuit of purity and authenticity.
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  2. What is unique about pierrot in Britain, is that there evolved troupes of pierrots specifically at the seaside: the story begins with the development of the seaside resorts and the mass market of holidaymakers as the industrial revolution took hold.

  3. Dec 3, 2023 · Armed with their unique lenses and individual brushes with life, contemporary creators translate the archaic image of Pierrot into a language that speaks directly to the heart, connecting the past with the present and the individual with the universal.

  4. The moonstruck mime Pierrot has had a lasting influence on the arts, from the commedia dell'arte to Arnold Schoenberg and David Bowie.

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  5. Pierrot is a stock character from the Italian commedia dell'arte, often depicted as a sad, white-faced clown in a loose white costume. This character is traditionally associated with themes of unrequited love and melancholy, embodying the complexities of emotion in theatrical performances, particularly during carnival and masquerade festivities.

  6. Jan 9, 2024 · About this book. The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot’s recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of ...

  7. Feb 13, 2017 · The pairing of a pantomime with a one-act opera was a unique choice of the Metropolitan, and might be explained with the management’s intention of attracting an audience to an alien form of musical entertainment offering it in a double bill with a widely popular work.

  8. While Pierrot continues... The chief argument of this chapter is that Watteau’s large painting Pierrot (formerly and erroneously called Gilles) owes its compositional singularity and its affective power to the genre of the ‘costume’ or ‘costume print’ (see Plate 1).

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