So I’m taking a Modern Art class. I hated the last one I took but I’m convinced that I just couldn’t stand the instructor. Here are a few works I’ve rekindled a love for:
Henri Matisse-
Red Studio
Joy Of Life
Georges Seurat-
Seurat invented pointalism which is using tiny dots of color to make a painting so that when you stand back the colors blend into new colors.
- Sunday Afternoon On La Grande Jatte
Paul Cezanne-
Cezanne loved geometry. He was obsessed with finding geometrical shapes in nature.
- Still Life With Skull
Toulouse Lautrec-
You could say Lautrec reshaped advertising into what we know it to be today.
Paintings:
At the Moulin Rouge
In the background center you see two men, one is tall and wearing a top hat and right next to him there appears to be a man seated. The seated man is Toulouse Lautrec himself. He actually isn’t seated at all- he is standing. As child he suffered severe injury to his limbs and they stopped growing so he had a normal sized torso but was still quite small.
Rosa La Rouge
Prints:
- Advertising the Moulin Rouge, a place Lautrec spent a lot of time.
- Advertising the Divan Japonais. This one hung in my room until it fell and broke.
- Advertising a gig for his friend Bruant.
Cubism to come later.
