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Happiness is ...
... when even when you're sad, you can give joy to others
Canon EOS 6D - f/5.6 - 1/60sec - 100 mm - ISO 250
- 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 contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown.
Performing unmasked, with a whitened face, he wears a loose white blouse with large buttons and wide white pantaloons. He appears with a frilled collaret and a black skullcap.
The defining characteristic of Pierrot is his naïveté: he is seen as a fool, often the butt of pranks, yet nonetheless trusting.
Much of the mythic quality ("I'm Pierrot," said David Bowie: "I'm Everyman") still adheres to the "sad clown" of the postmodern era.
Happiness is ...
... when even when you're sad, you can give joy to others
Canon EOS 6D - f/5.6 - 1/60sec - 100 mm - ISO 250
- 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 contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown.
Performing unmasked, with a whitened face, he wears a loose white blouse with large buttons and wide white pantaloons. He appears with a frilled collaret and a black skullcap.
The defining characteristic of Pierrot is his naïveté: he is seen as a fool, often the butt of pranks, yet nonetheless trusting.
Much of the mythic quality ("I'm Pierrot," said David Bowie: "I'm Everyman") still adheres to the "sad clown" of the postmodern era.