- The artist’s background (personal, artistic, and social contexts)
- Toulouse-Lautrec is a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator. He worked with the theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s. When he was young (13/14), he fractured his thigh bones and they never healed properly so he was known for being very short. He hung out at the Moulin Rouge and drank and did his illustrations. Here, no one would judge him for being different, so he stayed and was accepted. Toulouse-Lautrec created 737 canvases, 275 watercolours, 363 prints and posters, 5,084 drawings, some ceramic and stained glass work, and an unknown number of lost works.
- The big idea and key concepts (what is the work about?)
- Toulouse-Lautrec became very interested in the bohemian lifestyle and was drawn to prostitutes He began painting them and then moved on to family portraits as well as landscapes. He also captured amazing images of the night life at the Moulin Rouge.
- Boundaries (Media, subject matter, visual form, techniques)
- Kurger layers photographs with aggressive texts that shows the difference and idea of power in today's society. A lot of her text approach the idea of feminism, consumerism, and individualism.
- The key artwork(s) (include title, year, medium, and insert links if needed)
- "Two girls in bed." 1893. Oil painting.
- "At the Moulin Rouge. 1892-1895. Oil Painting.
- "Jane Avril" 1893. Color lithograph on wove paper.
5. The artist’s artmaking practices
- Knowledge (how does the artist acquire knowledge?)
- Toulouse-Lautrec got his information for his images by just observation.
- Toulouse-Lautrec got his information for his images by just observation.
- Artmaking problem (how to investigate and express the idea?)
- o Technical strategies- He uses oil paint and bright colors to capture the lighting and different facial expressions on everyone's face.
- o Conceptual strategies- Lautrec uses risk taking in who he captured in the images (prostitutes,etc)
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