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"Le Chahut," Georges Seurat, 1889/90.

I've said it before, I'll say it again...I'm not a big fan of Seurat overall. His technique is dazzling, I'll admit. But his figures are stiff and often unconvincing. That being said...it works here, after a fashion.

"Le Chahut" means "the noise" or "the uproar" and is another name for what is commonly known as the can-can. While the pointillist technique works here in an artistic sense, the overall figures look fake, unless one regards this from a graphic-design viewpoint. I don't know if it was intended for that, but I see this and think, "Advertising art." Exquisite ad art, to be sure, but I can see it being used as a poster for a nightclub.

When Seurat tried to be naturalistic, as he did in his famous "Sunday" painting, I feel he falls a bit short, but here his artificial handling of figures works as graphic design.

From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands.

A Pointillist scene. Inside a nightclub, a chorus line of women and men onstage kick flamboyantly, while members of the orchestra play below. A few faces are visible in the audience.
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