At the height of her popularity, she was depicted in an
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's lithograph titled "Idylle Princiere" (royal romance).
Cooper Albright writes, "it was the combination of these two forces--thc outside visual effect and the inside torque--that propelled Fuller into international celebrity at the end of the 19th century and separated her performances from those of her many imitators." She places Fuller among leading luminaries like Auguste Rodin,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Stephane Mallarme.
O'Sullivan acknowledges a particular debt to Edgar Degas and
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. "I love Degas," she says.
We begin with At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance (1890) by
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901).
Deserving of ongoing recommendation for any elementary-level library strong in art book holdings is Toulouse-Lautrec: The Moulin Rouge And The City Of Light, a survey of artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who fell in love with art at an early age and was inspired to recreate Paris' atmosphere in his works.
Based on a best-selling fictionalised biography by Pierre La Mure, it concentrates on famed painter
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and his two love affairs.
For calculatedly unconventional figures such as Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred Jarry, Oscar Wilde, and
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, absinthe was a symbol as well as an intoxicant.
Four feet, 11 inches in Cuban heels,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) lurched along on crutches and sniffled, drooled, and lisped.
The history of art is full of stories about artists who had to overcome obstacles, make adjustments to studio facilities, or adapt techniques to facilitate their work: Margaret Bourke-White, Dale Chihuly, Francisco de Goya, Elizabeth Layton, Claude Monet, Faith Ringgold, Frida Kahlo, Robert Rauschenberg, Chuck Close,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Henri Matisse, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michael Graves, to name a few.
His image of a feisty music hall dancer performing the can-can not only made artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec an overnight sensation when his poster advertising the Moulin Rouge hit the streets of Paris, but it became an emblem of an era.