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For this week discussion, I have chosen the French artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Henri was highly inspired by impressionist art and Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking. The Toulouse family were a high-class family which practiced inbreeding. Due to his parent being first cousins, Henri had quite a lot of health-related issues as toothaches, deformities, and even weak bones structures. During his teen years, his femurs snapped which stunted his growth overall. Despite his hard childhood, Henri took to painting and later working under Léon Bonnat and later Fernand Cormon.

Henri painted people in places he knew and in situations that were from realism. He was known to paint ladies in a loving light but as people, not as just symbols

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