HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
1. french
2. Art Nouveau, Post-Impressionism
3. influenced by Degas
4. his style was an omen for the turn to Fauvism and Cubism
5. departs radically from Degas’ naturalism in his poster “Jane Avril”
6. influenced by Japanese woodblock prints
7. said: “I have tried to do what is true and not ideal”
8. also said: “I paint things as they are. I don’t comment.”
9. was especially interested in psychological stimului
10. his most famous work is the poster “Jane Avril”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, in full Henri-Marie-Raymonde de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (born Nov. 24, 1864, Albi, France—died Sept. 9, 1901, Malromé) was a French artist who observed and documented with great psychological insight the personalities and facets of Parisian nightlife and the French world of entertainment in the 1890s. His use of free-flowing, expressive line, often becoming pure arabesque, resulted in highly rhythmical compositions (e.g., In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster, 1888). The extreme simplification in outline and movement and the use of large colour areas make his posters some of his most powerful works.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600695/Henri-de-Toulouse-Lautrec
One of his favourite tricks was not showing a woman’s face. He’d paint her turned away, or with her hair over her forehead, so you couldn’t see her eyes. But instead of blocking you off from the women, the back views and the hair seemed to pull you towards them. You really want to know what they’re thinking.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article662158.ece
Toulouse-Lautrec sought to capture the effect of the movement of the figure through wholly original means.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600695/Henri-de-Toulouse-Lautrec
Toulouse-Lautrec, on the other hand, employed freely handled line and colour that in themselves conveyed the idea of movement. Lines were no longer bound to what was anatomically correct; colours were intense and in their juxtapositions generated a pulsating rhythm; laws of perspective were violated in order to place figures in an active, unstable relationship with their surroundings.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/600695/Henri-de-Toulouse-Lautrec
+ Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
+ In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new.. they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves.. novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only.. making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
+ I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.
+ I paint things as they are. I don’t comment. I record.
http://www.artquotes.net/masters/toulouse-lautrec/index.htm
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