Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
[1] Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a famed 19th-century French painter and poster artist known for works like 'The Streetwalker' and 'At the Moulin Rouge.' [2] He became highly famed for his posters, influenced by Japanese styles and Impressionist Edgar Degas, and for imbuing marginalized populations with humanity in his art, including sex workers, as seen in his 1896 print series Elles. Other notable works include At the Moulin Rouge andThe Streetwalker.
[3] Moulin Rouge: La Goulue is a bold, four-color lithograph depicting the famous cancan dancer La Goulue and her flexible partner Valentine le désossé made to advertise the popular French club, Moulin Rouge. Their audience is reduced to silhouettes in order to focus attention on the performers and evoke the Japanese art then in vogue. The triple repetition of the club's name draws the focus down to the central figure of the poster, La Goulue herself.The stark white of her petticoats, depicted with just a few lines on the white paper, epitomizes Toulouse-Lautrec's boldly simplistic style, a sharp break from the text-heavy posters of the day.
The bold primary colours of yellow and red draws the eye to the importance such as the title 'Moulin Rouge' or the cancan dancer, this gives a fun atmosphere to the poster and advertises La Goulue the cancan dancer as an entertaining person. The composition of the poster is interesting, there is something happening in the foreground, mid-ground and background yet the eye focuses on the mid-ground as it has a big block of white and there is a lot going on whereas in the background and foreground everything is very dull and subdued so the eye glazes over it.
Megan Chilcott
[1] http://www.biography.com/people/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec-9509115
[2] https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/laut/hd_laut.htm
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge:_La_Goulue
[3] Moulin Rouge: La Goulue is a bold, four-color lithograph depicting the famous cancan dancer La Goulue and her flexible partner Valentine le désossé made to advertise the popular French club, Moulin Rouge. Their audience is reduced to silhouettes in order to focus attention on the performers and evoke the Japanese art then in vogue. The triple repetition of the club's name draws the focus down to the central figure of the poster, La Goulue herself.The stark white of her petticoats, depicted with just a few lines on the white paper, epitomizes Toulouse-Lautrec's boldly simplistic style, a sharp break from the text-heavy posters of the day. The bold primary colours of yellow and red draws the eye to the importance such as the title 'Moulin Rouge' or the cancan dancer, this gives a fun atmosphere to the poster and advertises La Goulue the cancan dancer as an entertaining person. The composition of the poster is interesting, there is something happening in the foreground, mid-ground and background yet the eye focuses on the mid-ground as it has a big block of white and there is a lot going on whereas in the background and foreground everything is very dull and subdued so the eye glazes over it.
Megan Chilcott
[1] http://www.biography.com/people/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec-9509115
[2] https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/laut/hd_laut.htm
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge:_La_Goulue
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