A Clown by George Luks 1929
Boston Museum of Art
The Great Parade: Portrait of the Artist as Clown
edited by Jean Clair sold in connection
with an Exhibition organized by Pierre Theberge
Being an artist clown I was excited to find and buy the book: {The Great Parade: Portrait of the Artist as Clown edited by Jean Clair sold in connection with an Exhibition organized by Pierre Theberge} Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2004. The selected clown art was researched from this book. Footnotes to access more information on these paintings are posted below this article. Front Cover of Book copies of the book may be hard to find; search on Google or Amazon.
Crispin and Scapin by Honore Daumier
1863-1865 Daumier produced his social
caricatures for Le Charivari,
in which he held bourgeois society up to ridicule
Clown Making Up by John Sloan 1910
Showing the clown as an artist painting his face.
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Pierrot Grimacing by Gustave Dore
1832-1883 Possibly a self protrait by Dore
Watercolor
and white gouache over pencil lines
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The Clowns by Gutierres Salona 1920
Erie and grotesque images place
his art in a Spanish Baroque style |
The Intrigue by James Ensor 1911
inspired by masks of the Mardi Gras
Ensor is an expressionist painter, oil on canvas
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| Pip and Flip by Reginold Marsh 1930 Social Realist Painter of New York's colorful characters, this image from Coney Island was a favorite haunt of the artist |
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| Soir Bleu by Edward Hopper 1914 Hopper is an American original. The Whitney Museum in has an extensive collection of his work.
This is a 4 part blog on The Artist as a Clown
To learn more go to:
The Artist as a Clown Part 1:Mother Daughter Artists; Aleada and Leela Siragusa, Perform as ClownsDave Ryan at Clown Alley Orlando FloridaThe Artist as a Clown Part 3:The Noell's from Vaudeville to The SuncoastPrimate SanctuaryThe Artist As A Clown Part 4:Clowns in Art History |
Links for further reading on Clown Art History:
La
Grande Parade at
the Grand Palais, Paris
Commentary
on The Great Parade Exhibition, with more photos of the art.
Excellent
image of the painting, A Clown” by Luks from the Boston Museum of
Fine Art with commentary by Janet Comey. This
image is the image which was chosen for the cover of “The Great
Parade: Portrait of the Artist as Clown,” exhibition catalog.
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/a-clown-33303
Honre
Damier more art and biography
John
Sloan, every painter paints himself
Gustave
Dore for more of his art and biography
Jose
Gutlerrz Solana; art work
More
art and biography
Who
Was James Ensor?
Reginald
Marsh commentary with 3 paintings; Ephemeral in New York
Edward
Hopper from the Whitney Museum of American Art
