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  1. #SweetCharity #SteelMagnolias #CanCan #IrmaLaDouce #WhatAWayToGo #TheTurningPoint #GuardingTess #TheseOldBroads
    And man could she dance! Back in the 70s she did a show from the Moulin Rouge in Paris where she danced, spoke and sang her way across the stage introducing 6 foot female dancers around her, towering over her. I watched it with my mother and we were both enthralled.
    My fav movies: Steel Magnolias, WhatAWayToGo!, Can-Can, Irma la Douce.

    insidefame.com/article/shirley

  2. Impossible d'évoquer le cancan sans parler du film de Renoir : "French Cancan" sort sur les écrans en 1954 pour raconter l'aventure du Moulin Rouge ! Un chef d'oeuvre intemporel !

    #jeanrenoir #cinema #films #frenchcancan #cancan #danse #JeanGabin #spectacle #moulinrouge #culture #culturepourtous

    theartchemists.com/french-canc

  3. "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.

    #Art #Seurat #Pointillism #NeoImpressionism #CanCan #GraphicDesign