Bonjour mes amis! That's French for "Good day my friends." We are now learning about the French artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Objectives Students examine Toulouse-Lautrec's artwork and recognize him as a revolutionary force behind the modern printed poster and most noted recorder of the Gay Nineties (1890-1900) in Paris. Students identify some of the physical properties of line in Toulouse-Lautrec's posters. Students discuss how printed posters that are functional can also be considered works of art. Students create a print poster. Vocabulary Line: a mark made by a pointed tool - brush, pencil, stick, pen, etc. - often defined as a moving dot. Lines have five physical properties. These include:
Print: An image that exists in multiple copies, and has been taken from an engraved plate, woodblock, silk-screen stencil, lithographic stone (as in the case of Toulouse-Lautrec's prints), and photographic negative. Poster: A large, printed announcement, often illustrated, posted to advertise or publicize something. In his lifetime, Toulouse-Lautrec helped transform the poster from strictly an information source to a respectable form of art. Toulouse-Lautrec's posters were produced through the process of lithography. Lithography is based on the incompatibility of oil and water. The artist works with grease-based materials on a flat surface, while keeping the areas not to be printed wet with water. When an oil-based ink is deposited onto the plate it adheres only where the greasy design has repelled the water.
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