- Pierrot - Wikipedia
In 1897, Bernardo Couto Castillo, another Decadent who, at the age of twenty-two, died even more tragically young than Peters, embarked on a series of Pierrot-themed short—"Pierrot Enamored of Glory" (1897), "Pierrot and His Cats" (1898), "The Nuptials of Pierrot" (1899), "Pierrot's Gesture" (1899), "The Caprices of Pierrot" (1900
- Pierrot Through the Arts: The Cultural History of a Sad Clown - Culturedarm
Writers including Verlaine and Huysmens incorporated Pierrot into their works, as did Flaubert, who early in his career wrote an unperformed pantomime entitled Pierrot au sérail More elaborate was his role in the poetry of Jules Laforgue, where he served as both muse and emblem of the artist
- Crying on the inside: the life and times of Pierrot, modern arts . . .
Pierrot, an invention of the Italian commedia dell'arte troupes who delighted French audiences in Watteau's day, began life as a lazy, buffoonish stock character, the bumpkin foil to his fellow player Harlequin's ingenious trickery
- History’s Quietest Icon: The Many Faces Pierrot - Messy Nessy Chic
The silhouette of Pierrot is somewhat androgynous, which appealed to the fashion of the 1920s and continues to inspire artists, designers, fashion icons (Twiggy performed as Pierrot in The Boy Friend in 1971) and rockstars and performers alike
- PIERROT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PIERROT is a stock comic character of old French pantomime usually having a whitened face and wearing loose white clothes
- The Art of Pierrot: A Painter’s Study – Creative Flair
The enigmatic figure of Pierrot, with his chalk-white face and billowing costume, has haunted the creative imagination for centuries, weaving a narrative thread that binds the Commedia dell'arte's Italian origins with the complex tapestry of Western art history
- Pierrot - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Los Hermanos, a rock band from Brazil, has a song called "Pierrot" on the debut album, Los Hermanos "Pierrot" is a song by Lee Hyun Do and is featured in the rhythm video game Pump It Up Brindis por Pierrot (Cheers for Pierrot) is an album of the Uruguayan songwriter singer Jaime Ross
- The History of Pierrots - Seaside Follies
The origins of the pierrot character come from the medieval Italian Comedy or Commedia d’ell Arte, as do those of Harlequin Columbine, whom we associate with pantomime and Mr Punch of Punch Judy fame
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