
Pierrot
Pierrot is a sad clown who often pines for love of Columbine. He wears a loose white blouse with large buttons and wide white pantaloons. He has a whitened face and sometimes appears with a frilled collaret and a hat. Pierrot's character has developed from being a buffoon to an avatar of the disenfranchised. Many cultural movements have found him amenable to their respective causes: Decadents turned him into a disillusioned foe of idealism; Symbolists saw him as a lonely fellow-sufferer; Modernists made him into a silent, alienated observer of the mysteries of the human condition.