Harlequin - Wikipedia
WEBHarlequin (/ ˈhɑːrləkwɪn /, Italian: Arlecchino, Italian: [arlekˈkiːno]; Lombard: Arlechin, Lombard: [arleˈki]) is the best-known of the comic servant characters (Zanni) from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo.
Seated Harlequin - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBHowever, Picasso gave his Harlequin a white face and ruffs: the attributes of Pierrot, the melancholy, cuckolded clown who inevitably loses his love, Columbine, to the nimble and lusty Harlequin.
Harlequin with a Guitar - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBGris was particularly fond of the subject; he portrayed Harlequin in approximately forty works made between 1917 and 1925. In this painting, caricature softens the Cubist fracturing of the figure, while bands of light illuminate Harlequin’s costume.
Harlequin | The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBHarlequin is one of the most recognizable and enduring figures of the Commedia dell'Arte, an improvised form of theater performed by masked actors that originated in the mid-16th century in northern Italy but soon spread to the streets and courts of Europe.
Pablo Picasso | Harlequin | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBHarlequin. Pablo Picasso Spanish. 1927. Not on view. The presence of Harlequin in this enigmatic picture—signaled by the bicorne hat and the lozenges at lower right—identifies this work as a self-portrait, for Harlequin was the artist's known alter ego.
Selected Artists | The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBSelected Artists. The New Harlequin Game. By the mid-19th century, commedia dell'Arte characters were recast by Romantic novelists and poets—including Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, and Georges Sand—to express tragic sentimentality and disillusionment.
Art Object Page - National Gallery of Art
WEBHarlequin's traditional diamond patterned costume, bicorn hat, and the wooden sword that denoted his buffoonery have appealed to artists from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, and the character appears in Watteau's Italian Comedians and Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques.
Paul Cézanne’s Harlequin | The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBPaul Cézanne painted four works with Commedia dell'Arte subjects between 1888 and 1890—three isolated Harlequins, of which the work to the right is the largest, and a Mardi Gras scene with Harlequin and Pierrot.
Harlequin: the contemporary iconography of a - Artmajeur
WEBMar 1, 2022 · Serg Louki, Harlequin, 2020. Watercolor on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Harlequin: Iconography and Character. Officially, Harlequin is a mask of the "Commedia dell'Arte", dating back to the 16th century and originating in Lombardy (Italy), more precisely in …
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Curator Interview: Picasso's - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBAug 10, 2010 · «The signature image of the exhibition Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (closing August 15) is the Seated Harlequin, a masterpiece painted by Picasso when he was just nineteen years old. Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, spoke with me about the painting's imagery ...
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