Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on November
  24, 1864, in southern France. Son and heir of
  Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse, he was the
  last in the line of an aristocratic family that
  dated back a thousand years. Today, the family
  estate houses the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec. As a
  child, Henri was weak and often sick. But by the
  time he was ten years old he had begun to draw
  and paint.

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Toulouse-Lautrec

• At age twelve Toulouse-Lautrec broke his left leg
  and at fourteen his right leg. The bones did not
  heal properly, and his legs ceased to grow. He
  reached maturity with a body trunk of normal size
  but with abnormally short legs. He was only 4 1/2
  feet (1.5 meters) tall.
• Deprived of the physical life that a normal body
  would have permitted, Toulouse-Lautrec lived
  completely for his art. He dwelt in the
  Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the
  cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he
  loved to depict in his work. Dance halls and
  nightclubs racetracks, prostitutes - all these
  were memorialized on canvas or made into
  lithographs.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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• Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional
  lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded
  people, involving musical, artistic or literary
  pursuits, with few permanent ties. Bohemians can
  be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds.
• The term bohemian, of French origin, was first
  used in the English language in the nineteenth
  century1 to describe the non-traditional
  lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished
  artists, writers, journalists, musicians, and
  actors in major European cities. Bohemians were
  associated with unorthodox or anti-establishment
  political or social viewpoints, which were often
  expressed through free love, frugality, and/or
  voluntary poverty.

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• Moulin Rouge (French for Red Windmill) is a
  cabaret built in 1889. The Moulin Rouge is best
  known as the spiritual birthplace of the modern
  form of the can-can dance. Originally introduced
  as a seductive dance by the courtesans who
  operated from the site, the can-can dance revue
  evolved into a form of entertainment of its own
  and led to the introduction of cabarets across
  Europe. Today the Moulin Rouge is a tourist
  destination, offering musical dance entertainment
  for adult visitors from around the world. Much of
  the romance of turn-of-the-century France is
  still present in the club's decor.

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Toulouse-Lautrec

• Throughout his career, which spanned less than 20
  years, Toulouse-Lautrec created 737 canvases, 275
  watercolors, 363 prints and posters, 5,084
  drawings, some ceramic and stained glass work,
  and an unknown number of lost works. His debt to
  the Impressionists, in particular the more
  figurative painters Manet and Degas, is apparent.
  His style was also influenced by the classical
  Japanese woodprints which became popular in art
  circles in Paris.

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• Toulouse-Lautrec's skilled depiction of people
  relied on his painterly style which is highly
  linear and gives great emphasis to contour. He
  often applied the paint in long, thin
  brushstrokes which would often leave much of the
  board (surface) on which they are painted showing
  through. Many of his works may best be described
  as drawings in coloured paint.

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Toulouse-Lautrec

• In order to join in the Montmartre life - as well
  as to fortify himself against the crowd's
  ridicule of his appearance - Toulouse-Lautrec
  began to drink heavily. By the 1890s the drinking
  was affecting his health. He was confined first
  to a sanatorium and then to his mother's care at
  home, but he could not stay away from alcohol.
  Toulouse-Lautrec died on September 9, 1901, at
  the family chateau of Malrome

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Self-portrait in the crowd, at theMoulin Rouge
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• Portrait of Van Gogh
• 1887

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The Bed-1893
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• Moulin Rouge
• Poster 1891

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• Yvette Guilbert
• 1894

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Woman in a Corset 1896
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