Posters and Prints of Toulouse-Lautrec

turn a woman’s hat into a fantastic huge weird shape, but used as a stylistic device to echo or emphasize the rhythm of the lines in the rest of the work, and to emphasize the character of the woman.

Open to nontraditional commissions, such as illustration and poster design to promote books, journals, plays, art exhibitions, café and theatre stars, Toulouse-Lautrec’s art touched the sensibilities of the Parisian public and opened up new venues of visual expression. In his posters, Toulouse-Lautrec seemed to feel totally free to express the stylistic inventions and devices suggested to him by the Japanese art he loved so much and the people to whom he was drawn. Thus did he leave his indelible mark on the art world, and especially the world of commercial illustration.

Resources:

Artchive Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/...

Retro Gallery article on the history of the poster, http://www2.netropolis.net/retrogallery/...

”T-Lautrec” from The San Diego Museum of Art: The Posters of Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paris and Printmaking http://www.sandiegomuseum.org/lautrec/

”Toulouse-Lautrec and the Spirit of Montmartre” from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco web site: http://www.thinker.org/legion/exhibition...

Toulouse-Lautrec’s Posters: http://www.sandiegomuseum.org/lautrec/po...

Wet Canvas article on the history of the poster, http://209.35.122.145/Museum/Posters/His...

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