Toulouse Lautrec paintings of dancehall performers and prostitutes are personal and humanistic. They reveal the sadness and humor hidden behind rice powders and gaslights. Their influences were long lasting. To say the least, there would be no Andy Warhol, if there was no Lautrec.
One of the early en plein air Toulouse Lautrec paintings was the Streetwalker. The pallid complexion and artificial hair color of his subject, a prostitute named Golden Helmet, clashed with the naturalistic setting of the drawing. Later on his career, Toulouse would devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel.
Featuring two of Toulouse's favourite cafe concert stars, Yvette Guilbert and Jane Avril, was one of the Toulouse Lautrec paintings, Divan Japonais. In the poster, Jane was seated in the foreground wearing one of her famously outlandish hats. Toulouse conveyed the essence of their personalities by exaggerating their characteristic features.
Gustave Courbet paintings challenged convention by rendering scenes from daily life on a large scale previously reserved for historical paintings. These works included The Stonebreakers and A Burial at Omans. Omans was Gustave's native village in the Franche-Comte in eastern France and it was where this group of paintings was set.
In one of Gustave Courbet paintings done on monumental canvas, The Painter's Studio, Gustave featured figures on the left, suggesting the various social types that appear in his canvases and figures on the right, portraying his friends and supporters. The meaning behind his unfinished painting remains enigmatic to this day.
Leaving the Omans subjects and embracing modernity was the description for Gustave Courbet paintings during the 1850s. In 1866, Gustave submitted Woman with a Parrot to the Paris Salon, as a painting of a nude that its conservative jury could accept. Gustave's nudes was unmistakably modern as opposed to the idealized nudes by Academic artists. For this, he was lauded by his supporters for painting the real, living French woman.
One of the early en plein air Toulouse Lautrec paintings was the Streetwalker. The pallid complexion and artificial hair color of his subject, a prostitute named Golden Helmet, clashed with the naturalistic setting of the drawing. Later on his career, Toulouse would devote an entire series of prints, called Elles, to life inside a brothel.
Featuring two of Toulouse's favourite cafe concert stars, Yvette Guilbert and Jane Avril, was one of the Toulouse Lautrec paintings, Divan Japonais. In the poster, Jane was seated in the foreground wearing one of her famously outlandish hats. Toulouse conveyed the essence of their personalities by exaggerating their characteristic features.
Gustave Courbet paintings challenged convention by rendering scenes from daily life on a large scale previously reserved for historical paintings. These works included The Stonebreakers and A Burial at Omans. Omans was Gustave's native village in the Franche-Comte in eastern France and it was where this group of paintings was set.
In one of Gustave Courbet paintings done on monumental canvas, The Painter's Studio, Gustave featured figures on the left, suggesting the various social types that appear in his canvases and figures on the right, portraying his friends and supporters. The meaning behind his unfinished painting remains enigmatic to this day.
Leaving the Omans subjects and embracing modernity was the description for Gustave Courbet paintings during the 1850s. In 1866, Gustave submitted Woman with a Parrot to the Paris Salon, as a painting of a nude that its conservative jury could accept. Gustave's nudes was unmistakably modern as opposed to the idealized nudes by Academic artists. For this, he was lauded by his supporters for painting the real, living French woman.
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