Something a Little More Modern

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.

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