Pierrot of Idaho
by Ismael Cavazos
Title
Pierrot of Idaho
Artist
Ismael Cavazos
Medium
Drawing - Pencil On Silk Screen On Cardboard
Description
I normally play off the father and son silhouettes in red but in 2012, this potato pierrot poked his head into this world! I used pencil to fill-in Idaho and I used a blade to scratch away the red for a moon in Montana. Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and Commedia dell'Arte whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne. His character in postmodern popular culture—in poetry, fiction, the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin. Performing unmasked, with a whitened face, he wears a loose white blouse with large buttons and wide white pantaloons. Sometimes he appears with a frilled collaret and a hat, usually with a close-fitting crown and wide round brim, more rarely with a conical shape like a dunce's cap.
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January 29th, 2015
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