Marika Takanishi Knowles's monograph focuses on Pierrot’s rise ... (around 1720), now in the Louvre. Watteau’s clown smiles ... who had recently hung up his own white linen and straw hat to ...

Like Giraud, Schoenberg was trying to pursue a modernist agenda within the framework of traditional forms and processes. In “Pierrot Lunaire,” the clown-artist becomes a spokesman not for ...

Ultimately, it was a combination of era-specific details and supermodel Twiggy’s groovy interpretation of Pierrot in the 1971 film The Boy Friend that informed Corrin’s makeup for the big night.

Mr Le Calvez says that he registered Pierrot the Clown Fish with France's copyrights body in 1995. At the time he tried to approach French animation studios but his idea was turned down, he says.