The Post impressionists-Toulouse Lautrec (51 Min's)
Give a brief summary of how he lived and died , in your own words.(ex. what artists influenced him, his childhood his lifestyle, were he liked to go etc.) Remember be thoughtful, like the art historian you art Miranda.
Toulouse Lautrec was born in 1864 on Christmas eve.He was born very rich, in Paris. When he was a child his legs were cripple. Toulouse Lautrec in his teen years, broke his left leg and soon after he broke his right.His legs never healed right, this stunted the growth of his legs.His legs were as a child but his body was of a grown man.As an adult he went to Moulin Roung almost every day painting all the women he loved and adored looking at.Gauguin and Van Gogh influenced him a lot.He continued painting through out his life, including when he was in a asylum, to stop him from drink, when he got out soon after he die, at the age 36.
Did he live a bohemian lifestyle and why?
Yes because he believed in the Bohemian lifestyle and also believed in Truth ,Beauty,Freedom, and Love, which is the Bohemian mod-do.He also owned no land and drank a lot which is a lot like a Bohemian.
Define Lithograph: is a method for printing using a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface. Lithography originally used oil or fat.
Find a you tube video on stone lithograph
Moulin Rouge means what?Red windmill
Describe what it was? Moulin Rouge (French for Red Windmill) is a cabaret built in 1889 by Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris red-light district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the facsimile of a red windmill on its roof.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge) When the Moulin Rouge opened on October 5, 1889, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec had already gained much popularity within the bohemian community and was one of the invite-only guests at the opening night party. The Moulin Rouge, which means "red mill," was just that: a huge windmill painted red. It became a landmark, and a symbol of the joie de vivre — the joy of life — in Paris at the time.
The Moulin Rouge was the "rendezvous du high life." It was a theater, a concert hall, and a dance hall — all at the same time.
People came from all over to dance, to watch the dancers, and to watch each other watching the dancers. And Lautrec was there, at the same table every night, drinking and sketching everything which caught his fancy, particularly the dancers.
Try to find a picture of the Moulin Rouge in his time.
TRADITIONAL CAN CAN DANCERS
Define hedonist:Hedonism is a school of philosophy which argues that pleasure has an ultimate importance and is the most important pursuit of humanity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonist
Define decadent :decadency - Degeneracy: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
decadence - A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decadence
See if you can use these words in describing his life.
Toulouse Lautrec believed in Hedonism because he thought everything should be fun,easy and beautiful.He was also Decadent because he was artistic.
lithograph posters , what one(title) made him famous. hint: can can girl what did her name mean, try to find an image of this work and post
The Poster La Goulue for Moulin Rouge, her name means "The Glutton" Here is a video of her during her time.
He is known as father of what?Modern Posters
Define brothel:A brothel, also known as a bordello, cat house, whorehouse, sporting house and various other euphemisms, is an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution, providing the prostitutes a place to meet and to have sexual intercourse with clients. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothel
Define Delirium Tremors:
The main symptoms are confusion, diarrhoea, disorientation and agitation and other signs of severe autonomic instability (fever, tachycardia, hypertension). Other common symptoms include intense perceptual disturbance such as visions of insects, snakes or rats (or stereotypically, pink elephants or tiny figures). These may be hallucinations, or illusions related to the environment, e.g., patterns on the wallpaper that the patient perceives as giant spiders attacking him or her. Unlike hallucinations associated with schizophrenia, delirium tremens hallucinations are primarily visual, but are also associated with tactile hallucinations such as sensations of something crawling on the subject - a phenomenon known as formication.Delirium tremens (colloquially, the DTs, "the horrors", "the fear", "the abdabs", "the jimjams" or "the rats"; afflicted individuals referred to as "jitterbugs" in 1930s Harlem slang; literally, "shaking delirium" or "'trembling madness" in Latin) is an acute episode of delirium that is usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol, first described in 1813. Benzodiazepines are the treatment of choice for delirium tremens.
Find three works from his circus drawings, when and where did he create these?
At what age and how did he die?36 because of syphilis and mostly alcoholism. He also had a stroke, he could not quite his drinking he suffered the DT's, his body gave out.
Load a link to a nice site on Lautrec
http://www.lautrec.info/
