Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa Tapié of Celeyran, Count of Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa , known simply as Toulouse Lautrec ( Hôtel du Bosc , Albi November 10 1864 , 9 September 1901 ) was a painter and poster French noted for his portrayal of the Parisian nightlife of the late twentieth century will be part of the generation of postimpressionism .
Castle was born in Albi in the heart of a family of nobility. In his family, as was customary in many sagas of the great aristocratic marriages were performed between relatives to avoid territorial divisions and the dispersion of wealth. This was the case of the parents of Henri, Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfay Adele Tapie de Celeyran were first cousins. The inbreeding had to determine the health of the artist. Henri was the firstborn and when he was four, his brother Richard was born Constantine, who died a year later. For disagreements, his parents separated in 1868 and Toulouse-Lautrec came under the care of his mother.
His childhood was happy until, as a result of inbreeding their parents, Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a disease affecting bone development and began to move him in 1874. His constitution was weak bone and between May 1878 and August 1879 suffered two fractures in femurs of both legs, which prevented him grow, reaching a height of 1.52 m
The work of Toulouse-Lautrec is known for his photographic style, which under the spontaneity and the ability to capture movement in her scenes and characters, with his very distinctive style. This is compounded by the originality of his framing influence of Japanese art, which manifests itself in the diagonal compositional lines and the sudden cut figures by the edges. He had a photographic memory and painted very quickly. However, his first influence was the impressionist painting, and above all, the figure of Degas, who went away from urban issues interpreting landscapes Monet or Renoir. It was the vanguard of modernism and Art Nouveau.
addition to oil painting Henri used other techniques and other media in his work, emphasizing the production of posters. Used especially pastel on brown paper wrapping.
His technique with the oil was mixing the colors with turpentine to get a similar effect in watercolor and resolved on the canvas with long strokes as parallel or intersecting lines or forming a network, thick or thin as the case.
The posters used flat colors and the design is characterized by its tendency to caricature where at least portrayed the character traits and personality of the character.
