practice post #6

Henry de toulouse lautrec.

"The French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec depicted the Parisian night life of cafés, bars, and brothels (houses of prostitution, where sexual acts are traded for money)—the world that he inhabited at the height of his career."

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a direct descendant of an aristocratic family of a thousand years, was born on November 24, 1864, at Albi, France, to Alphonse-Charles and Adèle Zoë. His wild and colorful father lived in moderate luxury, hunting with falcons and collecting exotic weapons. Henri began to draw at an early age and found the arts an escape from his loving but over-protective family. 

An illustrator, who immersion in the colorful and theatical and provocative image

Reclining Nude

 Art at the Moulin Rouge

oil canvas 

Self-portrait in the crowd, at the  Moulin Rouge
Acording to theArtform, Henrry Lautret painted the gaslit interior of parisian nightclud and brothels.
He was masterly at capturing crowd scenes in which the figures are highly individualized. At the time that they were painted, the individual figures in his larger paintings could be identified by silhouette alone, and the names of many of these characters have been recorded. His treatment of his subject matter, whether as portraits, scenes of Parisian night-life, or intimate studies, has been described as both sympathetic and dispassionate.

 I like his work because their painting show us a realistic image expressing feelings and symbolism of depths of emotions like love,loneliness fear and death.