Le Chahut [SEP] material used
Cubists, Futurists and Orphists.
Formerly in the collection of French Symbolist poet and art critic Gustave Kahn, "Chahut" is located at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.
Description.
"Le Chahut" is an oil painting on canvas measuring 170 by 141 cm (67 x 55 in). Seurat employed a Divisionist style, with pointillist dots of color. The work is dominated by a color scheme that tends toward the red end of the spectrum, of earth tones that draw from
Le Chahut
Le Chahut (English: "The Can-can") is a Neo-Impressionist painting by Georges Seurat, dated 1889-90. It was first exhibited at the 1890 Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants (titled "Chahut", cat. no. 726) in Paris, where it eclipsed other works. "Chahut" became the prime target of art critics, and was widely discussed among Symbolist critics.
The painting—representing a quadrille at the Moulin Rouge—influenced the Fauves,