Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
| March 09, 2007

It is the subject matter of Toulouse-Lautrec that I find most important — not elite and refined, but common and crude. He is inspired by the street not the salon. Sort of like a 19th-Century version of gigposters.com.

Toulouse-Lautrec was one of many French poster artists using the new technique of lithography.

A National Gallery of Art exhibition has a good overview of Lautrec's work. Here is another bit of writing about Toulouse-Lautrec.

Link:  Toulouse-Lautrec / Wikipedia

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