HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC PAINTING LA DANSE AU MOULIN ROUGE ——————————————————————

MAURICE JOYANT

Genre: Documentary

Date: 1890

Location: France

Format: Large format “Maurice Joyant (1864-1930) was an art dealer and amateur photographer who took numerous images of his friend, the artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who apparently never took a single photograph himself.

Yet Toulouse-Lautrec very much relied on posters and photographs for inspiration., using them as templates to suggest the compositional ratios, lighting ad scenery of his paintings. Many of his paintings derived directly from photographs taken by his friends. Uniquely for his time, Toulouse-Lautrec operated between the two mediums when painted portraiture was being replaced by by that of silver plates. What he depicted, and how he did so, would have been inconceivable without photography, because the moments he painted clearly reflect the immediacy of camera’s shutter. From its inception photography was seen as a fundamental challenge to painting, with some even declaring the invention of photography to be the death knell of art. But Toulouse-Lautrec’s use of photography as a source of his art was an early sign of the productive co-existence of the two mediums. Just as photographers look to art as inspiration, so do painters look to photographs for unrepeatable situations.”(ZGbyd)

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