Posted on 01/20/2018 1:13:46 PM PST by mairdie
Another piece for a quick review of art history on a single, post-impressionist artist. The first part gives a rough, chronological pass through Toulouse-Lautrec's work, showing him as an academically trained portrait painter, whose style gradually developed into the poster style we're so familiar with. The second part shows his Moulin Rouge period work.
Done.
And welcome to the round table.
Thank you for this post. Moulin Rouge is my all time favorite movie. It was released in 1952 when I was a teenager; I purchased it on VUDU and have watched several times recently.
Zsa Zsa Gabor played Jane Avril (in some of the paintings). Her voice in songs was that of Muriel Smith who also played Aicha.
Jose Ferrer played Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and also the role of his father.
Colette Marchand played Marie Charlet.
You’re more than welcome.
I purchased the DVD from Amazon to get the song and was thrilled that there was enough to use. I only had to worry about that one man shouting in the middle of dancing, and that was taken care of by focusing on a man watching in the video. I loved Gabor in it, and Jose Ferrer was perfect. The scene at the end when he dies is absolutely heartbreaking.
After I did the video, though, I was sorry that the movie didn’t do better with the dress Avril wears with the snake on it. I get the glitter, but it really needed to keep the concept of the snake surrounding her body.
He was definitely a tragic character. So many of the artists were.
More of his paintings may be viewed here:
https://www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org
I have been tempted to purchase a reproduction painting
but it is a bit much on a SS income.
SCREENSAVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the advantages of having it on the wall, with none of the cost.
Tough!
I’m on the spot, here.
OK, just one, re Bouguereau - Berlioz, The Tempest Overture.
Why - period and place match, early-mid 19th century French Romantic
Also the piece is light, romantic indeed, and very lovely and feminine, as is most of Bouguereau’s work.
I think I can pop sonething up for Rossetti, but he won’t be an Englishman. I’m thinking Mendelssohn.
Actually quite a lot of Berlioz would suit Bouguereau.
Depends on what mood you want. “Reverie” for a wistful air, all those lovely ladies past and gone.
That was beautiful, Captain. The music was lovely and the morphing was brilliant. The editor did a great job. Thanks for the link.
Berlioz was always one of my favorite composers, once I tear myself away from trumpet voluntaries. Romeo and Juliet; Damnation of Faust. I’ll find some way to work in something from him.
Are you assuming that nobody ever thought of this or produced this before?
No. But to create my own art, I don’t watch other people’s work. That way what I do is original. And what I have seen seems to often be done without an art historian approach. That is, it’s just plain pretty pictures. What I’m always looking for is an underlying story - for art, usually the body of an artist’s work from their intial attempts at various styles to their settling in to a final style.
Why the aggression? It seems completely ununecessary.
I thought it was odd that you would post the "The Paintings of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to the music of Offenbach" as being BRAND NEW when that is the very opposite of a brand new concept. Every art historian or critic for a hundred years has compared Toulouse-Lautrec to the music of Offenbach.
Thank you. I can look at those now that I’ve created my own. My art is the video editing, and my choice of images. Sunsets, after all, have been painted by many people. Just because someone painted one, doesn’t mean no one else ever can again. As an art history student, I had a chance to work in the Lorado Taft studio using antique methods like silverpoint, egg tempera, printing stones, etc. What I learned from that is that the richness of skill of the people who succeed with those materials is not mine. But I do have a sense of rhythm, and I do have an ability to frame, and I can edit in my sleep. And have. So this is my art, and it’s my sunset, and it really doesn’t matter if anyone else ever paints one, too.
My end goal is to have a set of videos of various painters because it brings back the emotions I felt in class when a French Impressionist painting would fill the front of the auditorium and I’d cry at the beauty. You’ll find your own beauty, and that’s good, too.
NOW I understand your confusion.
I announce music videos almost every day. I’ve been making them since 1986. I’ve made over 700 of them. They’re my body of art. But I’m most often posting old videos and people also watch other videos in one of the over 50 playlists I have on various topics.
So it’s important to let viewers know when it’s guaranteed they haven’t seen this particular video before. BRAND NEW means it’s never appeared in a playlist and they’ve never seen it if they’ve watched my videos, and there’s several hundred people who watch every day.
I’m sorry it was confusing to you. It was meant to be clarifying.
I've been told by some plank owner Freepers that back in the day, this site used to have a lot more general interest, arts/music/literature/history threads, rather than being 99.99 percent politics.
I would dearly love to see those days - before my time - make a comeback.
I'm one of those who firmly believes that one of the main characteristics of a conservative is that politics does not consume us 24/7/365, like it does for leftists.
You’re so welcome, Eric. I’ve only been here since Trump appeared before my bedazzled eyes and I needed somewhere to go to squee, as they say. And I do do my political reading every day, a compulsion I can’t stop. But it grinds the soul and I need ways to lighten mine. There’s a set of people who show up here who share joy in beauty, and I’m so grateful to them.
I see the same names posting some wonderful threads. I always stop and look at what SunkenCiv has to offer us. And so many others. Sometimes I find the haters discouraging, but then someone like you shows up at the table and it’s all worthwhile again.
Thank you.
Thanks, Mairdie!
Just what I need after a very hectic shift in the medical field! Pinging a friend who might enjoy!
First THANK YOU for being in a field that takes so much out of you and gives us all so much. The frantic pace probably just fits your heartbeat just now. Hoping the slowdown is filled with great pleasure and beauty. And the equivalent of my hot chocolate.
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