FAH287H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Moulin De La Galette, La Goulue, Paul Gauguin
22 Oct 2018
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Both sculpture (ballerina and gauguin"s polynesian) were highly criticised. Not of caucasian look, they suggest pain, they are sexualised etc etc. Van gogh"s asylum stay, painting the self-portraits. For some reason, van gogh still really resonates with people today. The idea that madness and genius can be linked is interesting to a lot of people. His determination to keep working despite his adversaries. Van gogh"s last words were this sadness will last forever . Usually refers to the end of the 19th century. Woman on the right has bluish white skin, with yellow hair. Toulouse was an insider painting this scene. Toulouse lautrec had embraced the fin-de-siecle living. Adult torso, small legs, had syphillis, was an alcoholic, lived in a brothel, for a while. Compositionally similar to le moulin de la galette, by renoir, but the meaning behind it is. Shared feeling of the hardships of life. Paris became a regularly rotating art gallery of posters.
