Word: lautrecs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that inspired...
...Franz Liszt sighed as Misia Sert played the piano, "Ah, if only I could still play like that." Grieg asked her to play the Peer Gynt Suite with him. Ibsen presented her with his autographed portrait. Mallarme wrote poems to her. Verlaine read her his verse and wept. Toulouse Lautrec painted her picture, then tickled the soles of her feet with his brush. Bonnard did murals for her salon. Picasso made her godmother to his first child. Proust called her beautiful. Maillol asked her to pose for sculpture. "In you the image of immortality seems achieved," he wrote her. "There...
...France's most successful poster artist, Colin turned out the best affiches since Toulouse-Lautrec, and he had mastered his predecessor's trick of seizing a subject's single feature and turning it into an artistic stop sign. Among Colin's subjects: Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, Pavlova, Katharine Hepburn, the French National Railroads, Cinzano, vacation resorts such as Cannes and Deauville...
Moulin Rouge. A richly Technicolored film about the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (TIME...
Moulin Rouge. John Huston's richly Technicolored film about the life & loves of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; with Jose Ferrer (TIME...