Posters of ParisFeaturing Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Morris Columns• During the 1800’s and

early 1900’s the economy was booming

• Luxury items: theater, music, fine arts, entertainment industries flowered

• Advertising became a new market

Henri Riviere

• Paris en Hiver, lithograph.

• Commissioned to illustrate program for public theatre

• La Marche a l’etoile, lithograph

• 1886 Les Farfadet cover illustration

• influence of japanese woodcut

Jules Cheret• Considered the ‘father of

the poster’

• introduces 3 new elements to the poster: color, size, artistic design

• viewed the streets as an ‘open air museum’

• collectors

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

• health issues as young child

• very gifted as illustrator and painter, lithographer

• recognized along with Cezanne and VanGogh

• died at 36 from complications of alcoholism

• influenced by ukiyo-e prints

• areas of flat color, strong outlines, contours, silhouettes, cropped compositions

• promotions of individual performers similiar to depictions of the ‘floating world’ of Edo-perdiod Japan (left)

Toulouse-Lautrec created 737 canvases, 275 watercolours, 363 prints and posters, 5,084 drawings, some ceramic and stained glass work, and an unknown number of lost works.

Lesson Plan Ideas• Lithography-make your own posters (link at the DMA website)

• color, shape, form study

• Japanese Woodcut

• line, contour study

• portraits in the style of Lautrec

• Fonts, Texts, Lettering and the importance of them in marketing

sources

• www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org/

• http://parismarket.blogspot.com/2010/07/postcards-from-paris-jules-cheret.html

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/laut/hd_laut.htm