Moulin Rouge-The Youth Monument of Impressionists

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Moulin Rouge-The Youth Monument of Impressionists
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Ten years before Renoir was born, the first
steam-train had started in France, and then the
construction of the railway was finished.
People lived in the village went to Paris
while the ones lived in Paris went to the
village. The convenient traffic impelled the
increasingly frequent exchanges of people. As the
modern city, the population of Paris got more and
more densely. When Renoir was 20 years old, the
newspaper reported that "People are born
for traveling, traveling is human's freedom".
Leisure activities became part of people's
daily living, the ball at the Moulin streets also
became the new place of recreation for the
Parisians naturally and attracted many
blue-collars who came from the village to
make a living in Paris. The original
tranquil and peaceful Montreal changed its
appearances dramatically.
In 1876, Renoir completed the painting of "Ball
at the Moulin de la Galette". At that time,
Montmartre located in the suburbs of Paris, where
leisure and quiet hills covered with vineyards
surrounded by some vegetable gardens. And there
were some mills and scattered windmills.
One of the windmills was belonged to the
Dupree family, but they transformed it into an
outdoor cafe suddenly named "The ball of the
Moulin Street" at that time. Perhaps when one
thing is rare, it becomes precious. The
reputations of this cafe spread like
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wildfire suddenly and it was known widely. It had
become the most popular entertainment, a pancake
called Galette was its special dishes.The dance
floor of this cafe was retrofitted from a quad
rate flat-roofed garage and with an orchestra
special stage. The ticket was 25 centimes,
and one had to pay another 25 centimes to
enter the dance floor. The tailors, female
apprentices, students under the hills and
painters in the street were all fond of this
new cafe dance hall. Renoir and his friends Edgar
Degas was regular customer of the cafe. Renoir
was fascinated by the open and lively atmosphere
which also belongs to civilians of the dance
hall, so he decided to take his canvas to
the cafe and intended to complete a painting
there.
After ten years, Vincent Van Gogh who lived
abroad in Paris was also depicted various
landscape painting of the Montmartre hills
in the themes of this cafe. The Montmartre in
Van Gogh's works still remains the
full-bodied and peaceful hills with the rural
favors. A few years later, "Le Moulin de
la Galette" was completely different
under the brush of Henri
de Toulouse-Lautrec. It had become a place
which exuded vulgar odors. In addition,
Picasso who came to Paris from Barcelona lived in
the village and also completed a work on the same
theme.
Picasso got inspired from the work of Renoir
which was bequeathed to the museum six years
ago. The images on his canvas were
no longer the unaffected men and women at the
age of Renoir, they were all gentlemen and ladies
entertained themselves from the games. The 30
years old Picasso was addicted to alcohol and no
longer interested in the feelings of the people
at the cafe. The Moulin Rouge in his paintings
was desolate and miserable.
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