Monday, November 5, 2012

"The Side Show" by Georges Seurat

The background color appears red and the whole painting used lots of warm colors. the warm color the painter used were not the lemon yellow or the bright orange, but used the burnt umber, burnt  sienna, burnt ochre, and some medium yellow. The impression that the painting left us was turbid. There are a few performance on the stage. one woman with the brown triangle hat and dark red suit is playing the instrument which has a long pipe. That woman is right in the middle of the picture and she is standing on another stage on the normal stage. She is facing us when we are looking at the painting. The size of that woman was pretty big; for instance, her height is two thirds of the painting's width. There are also three more men who are playing the similar instruments as the woman does. They are standing behind the woman and be about 3 meters in distance. Those men's head just reach the middle line of the painting's width. Those men are wearing the regular gentlemen hats and also standing on the left of the woman. On the right side on that woman, there are two gentlemen and they are all wearing the fancy clothes- formal dress code, and nice haircut. The one on the left of those two men is a little boy and on the right, there is a middle-age-man. They face to the directions which the other one stand. They do not seems to dance or sing. What they do much more like two men were acting. On the very bottom of the painting, there are a line of audiences; in addition, on the top of the painting, there are a few lights. Those two men and the woman are on the same plane and on the second plane, there 's a tree in front of the behind men. And the last plane is the playing men. The audiences seem even much closer than the woman to us.

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