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Lilies-Water, Tiger, Calla. The style had its origins in pre-Raphaelite painting, flourished in Toulouse-Lautrec's famous posters of Jane Avril, and was murdered by the cold cubism of Weimar's Bauhaus. Now it seems oldfashioned, yet it marked a rebellion against the fussy, historically eclectic aspects of Victorian art. It found its forms in nature: the lily (water, tiger and calla), clinging vines, leaves of all kinds, jellyfish, polyps-a whole botanical garden of gentle, curving shapes...
...poster artists were early admen. Toulouse-Lautrec glorified the bicycle as well as the poules of Montmartre. Lesser artists painted ads for big new department stores with "fixed prices indicated in plain figures" or automatic baby bottles, "the only one with a pump imitating the breast...
...poster art would not have made art history if it had not been for a rebellious group of impressionist painters who wanted to get more light and air into their work and to reach a larger public. With painters such as Manet, Bonnard, Villon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen and Forain doing the ad-cum-art work, the posters rapidly became collectors' items and more valuable than the products advertised...
Goya never worried about that; he did 23 series in the new art when he was nearly 80. Daumier put lithography to use in mass communication, publishing 4,000 editions of his social satire. Toulouse-Lautrec, adding color, posted florid cancan girls on every street corner. But lithography seemed to many 20th century U.S. artists too much part of the mass world...
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC-Wildenstein. 19 East 64th. The hundredth anniversary of his birth is celebrated by this loan exhibition of 50 paintings, including six not seen before in the U.S. and 100 drawings, lithographs and posters. Through March...