![]() Carlo Delpini as Pierrot So conceived, Pierrot was easily and naturally displaced by the native English Clown when the latter found a suitably brilliant interpreter. ![]() Jean-Baptiste Oudry ( Italian Actors in a Park ).Philippe Mercier ( Pierrot and Harlequin ).Nicolas Lancret ( Italian Actors near a Fountain ).Claude Gillot ( Master André's Tomb ),.Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( A Boy as Pierrot ).Trophonius's Cave (1722) and The Golden Ass (1725).Jean-Honoré Fragonard: A Boy as Pierrot, between 17. 5.4.2.2 Songs, albums, and rock musicals.5.1.1 Plays, pantomimes, variety shows, circus, and dance.5.1 Non-operatic works for stage and screen.5 Late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries (1951– ): notable works.4.4.2 Instrumental works (solo and ensemble).4.2.1 Works on canvas, paper, and board.4.1.2 Ballet, cabaret, and Pierrot troupes.4.1.1 Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues.4.1 Non-operatic works for stage and screen.4 Early twentieth century (1901–1950): notable works.3.3 Pantomime and late nineteenth-century art.3.2 Pantomime after Baptiste: Charles Deburau, Paul Legrand, and their successors. ![]() 3.1 Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules.The vast geographical range from Europe to Asia and beyond shows how wide-spread interest in Pierrot is, as does the variation in the artistic styles, from traditional ballet to rap-songs and music videos. This page lists the extensive use of Pierrot's stock character (whiteface with a tear, white shirt, cap, etc.) chronologically arranged according to country and artistic medium (e.g. Many cultural movements found him amenable to their respective causes: Decadents turned him into a disillusioned foe of idealism Symbolists saw him as a lonely fellow-sufferer Modernists converted him into a Whistlerian subject for canvases devoted to form and color and line. His character in contemporary popular culture - in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall - is that of the sad clown, often pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin. ![]() Cultural references to Pierrot have been made since the inception of the character in the 17th century. ![]()
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