The Ghost’s Appeal: Man’s Interest in the Superficial in Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin-Rouge

Once again, Edouard paints his subjects for Music in the Tuilers as high class. Like his earlier painting, The absinthe Drinker, many of the men are wearing top hats and nice suits. Unlike, The absinthe Drinker, Manet in Music in the Tuilers is now painting the image of women in this high-class society he is intrigued or disgusted with. These women along with many of the male figures in his painting are considered to be well known and quite recognizable. Since his subject patters are rather known, Manet recived a few harsh words for putting them in a panting that was not well painted or well compositionalized.

The art and beauty in this painting is exemplified through the eyes of Boucher. It starts with a beautiful couple taking a rest after picking up some followers. Their clothing looks very elegant and colorful which shows that they are aristocrats. The man’s eyes are gazing at a shepherdess who gathered her own flowers. Their eyes are locked despite the man having his own woman right in front of him. The light brushstrokes of the dresses, flowers, and trees

The painting required sketches on panel, 25 drawings and three important preliminary studies. The skirt of the woman in the center with a parasol is painted in an orange-pink hue. It casts a blue shadow. Her red jacket is seen against bright green grass. The orange dress of the young girl running (to the right) has a blue-tinted shadow. The skirt of the woman with a parasol walking beside a man is predominantly purple, so it seems, but is made up of a myriad of hues. Notice the lighter yellowish “halo” separating the skirt from the foreground grass, particularly just behind her skirt. At the same time, Seurat defines form by brushstrokes: close, parallel strokes define the contour of the woman’s bustle. He continuously experiments in his manner of applying paint; in the sunlit grass, for example, short, even strokes are laid over one another. It is clear that Seurat never followed any of the popular theories rigidly. His paintings are also intended to convey social commentary. The La Grande Jatte makes use of symbols. A monkey in French (and female) is known as “singesse,” denoting a prostitute. The smartly dressed woman is fishing but for what? Then, as now, spectators have questioned Seurat’s meaning. Whether Seurat intended the Bathers and this painting to be considered as pendants (a pair) is still debated; certainly he contrasts the natural world with the unpleasant artificiality of bourgeois life, as these artists saw it. However, the critics applauded such elements as the controlled surface of the painting, the use of aerial perspective, which gives an impression of space, and Seurat’s deeply shadowed foreground that leads into a light, bright distance. Strictly speaking, Pointillism refers to the technique of using dots of pure color in such a way that, seen at the appropriate distance, they achieve maximum luminosity. However, a pointillist painting is no more “luminous” than anything else that is printed with small dots,

The painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat may seem simple but is very complex and symbolic. The girl in the center of the painting is the only character looking directly at the viewer. Almost as if Seurat painted her to be communicating something to the audience. What that is can be found by looking at the time of which it was painted and the meaning and work behind the painting along with its relational paintings. The elements in the painting, especially shade and color, reveal this underlying meaning and message.

Henri Matisse and Boucher share a passion for the erotic view of their figures , Matisse have carefree flowing style figure in vivid bright colors in park scene while Boucher has a group of five being half man half beast figure , two nude women and nude Cupid babies in a woodland scene. Each used cherry landscape, vivid colors, and distinct brush work which is considered bold and dramatic which was a inspired by Impressionism and light hearted subject matter.

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec said, “and everywhere, ugliness has its beautiful aspects” (Untermeyer). After accidents in childhood left Lautrec with physical deformities, he began to create art that looked for the beauty in the ugliness of the world. In his paintings, he focused on the day to day lives of those around him, painting prostitutes and writers. However, he focused not on their main activities, but the mundane, non-artistic parts of their lives. This is especially apparent in his painting The Sofa. This painting depicts prostitutes, but in a very relaxed setting, rather than traditional beautiful poses they take in many paintings. The ruffled, relaxed, almost ugly view in the painting shows that Lautrec embraced the ugly in his daily

This painting addresses two discussions by Marx in terms of feminism and postcolonialism. The Caucasian female is depicted to be nude as she sits down in a pose that was as appropriately executed as possible. She has a glow about her, as her red hair beautifully contrasts her milky white skin. During this time, it was a new concept that women were painted in the nude as the girl is in this painting. Caught in a moment of vulnerability, the woman in the Moorish Bath was considered to be the object of desire to whoever owned this painting as it was essentially compared to the idea of owning this woman, being able to admire her from afar and fantasize about her as they pleased. However, she was by no means indigenous of the Moorish people, who were Muslim and from Northern Africa. The fantasy was further enhanced when the viewer notices that she is this Moorish, exotic setting where she does not belong, giving her a goddess-like quality. As for the other woman, she is depicted as a servant. As she stands near the shadow, her dark and muscular skin masks any softness about her, making her more of a supporting character in this painting than an object of

At the time this painting was being done, modernism was taking place in France. The country was adopting new technologies like the car and train. At this time, women could not have a sense of modernity. If they were to experience it, it was likely that they would be disregarded. Through modernism a broad subject was opened in painting. This was fortunate for men and but not for women, who remained on one side of the window. Men had the freedom in their subject matter. Through modernism, more barriers were built for women to withhold them. It also connected society by ensuring that classes were integrated. The clarity of the paintings indicates how modernism was favoring men. As women still portray their lives us unfinished during the modernism era, the live of men was already

Ultimately, the actions of the people in the painting reflects to the French Revolution. The women taking care of her sick child and making sure that he or she’s oka. The little girl sitting down seems to be really lonely and sad because of how poor they are and how they have to work for hours. The old man playing an instrument wants to make the people in the room happy and to forget about their problems that they all are

The red of her dress is used to make her body stick out from the rest of the painting. Blonde hair that surrounds her faced is used to make her face pop out from the rest of the painting. The blues in the background are used to gradually diminish the detail and makes a viewer pay more attention to the Lady’s face. The greens that are used in the portrait are used to recede the detail to her face as well. There is green on her dress that pushes out the focus more to the top of her body and face.

The oil seems to be heavily thick around the object surrounding the subject. The oil is glaze so lightly around the subject so she can produce a radiant effect. Parallel to the “Virgin”, whom the subject is exhibited as angelic virgin young women with a perfectly rich light shade dress and white glossy pale skin the Erato is highlighted as a warm pale skin tone erotic white women with a slim body with wavy dark black hair staring at the sky. The subject is a place in the middle of the portraits and she’s standing in the forest of Mont grand Hubert naked. She’s surrounded by dark green and light orange hue and by many different plants and greenery, there’s a deep dark green, light gleaming through the top branches and the shadows of the trees creeping down on her. There’s no living animal, which shows that there were never a living creature making the forest a hidden wonders unlike the virgin whose in a familiar setting. The Erato seems like a lost soul searching for adoration, however she seems at ease with nature while the “virgin” is perceived as a disgrace if she’s not covered up. The “Virgin” portrait displays of a pure woman are shown fully covered by the source of law that is authorized by God. These two portraits show that there two types of women a pure and an unclean women. Nonetheless the Erato concentrated on showing purity, which comes from the soul, not from the body while the “Virgin” is pure in the physical ideal of the eyes of

Both artists provide a psychological exploration of humanity, but in two totally opposite directions. Toulouse-Lautrec’s work is about passion and the highs and lows of human experience; Manet’s work, on the other hand, showcases the inscrutability of polite society and the proper ways of composing oneself. Messalina is an opera that ends in tragedy, and the brassy colors and free expressions of emotion help build up the drama of the situation. The young woman in Manet’s work is dressed in modest, fashionable attire, and is proper to the point of not being willing to engage with strangers. She exists in this new society of France where people of all classes mingle, but she seems to be disinterested in engaging with those she does not know, perhaps those of lower classes. Based on her fashionable clothes, her accessories, and her jewelry, she is likely of a higher class. She allows herself to cast a sidelong glance at the viewer - perhaps curious despite herself of what the strangers around her are wearing, as people-watching has become a fashionable pastime for the French - but otherwise refrains from showing emotion or doing anything untoward. She wears gloves, carries a walking stick, and even wears a veil to give herself another safeguard against impropriety. The differences in emotional energy between the two paintings are

One of the artwork I really like from the chapter 7 (“Purity of means” in practice: Henri Matisse’s Early career), but unfortunately I did found the year , method, and movement for this artwork in the book. What I really like in this painting how the women setting the table. We can see the loving nature of the women in this art work. looking at this art and how emotionally she setting the table we can make a guess that she is eagerly waiting for her family or someone special for dinner/lunch. The foods, plates, spoons and the drinks looks so natural. Especially, I really like the color that has been used for the

Analyze: Due to the colors and the value added to the painting, the emphasis of the painting is the woman. The strong black background contrasts her colorful clothing and fair skin creating a great emphasis on her presence within the painting. Additionally, the value and texture that is added to her face and clothing creates a realistic illusion. Her clothes contain folds and wrinkles, while her face contains shading that allow the viewer to see its rounded shape, as the light seems to strike from the upper left corner of the image.

The historical context of this painting was during a time of mobile artist. Men could go out and paint as they saw things increasing the flaneur of people. This compares to women, who were confined to painting the domestic side of life. They were not allowed to leave the house freely like men unless they were accompanied. It brings together the rise of modernity in Paris during the impressionist time period.