Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's circus drawings

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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's circus drawings발음듣기

(Circus calliope plays) Wearing a fur-lined jacket and a stiff tutu, a performer slowly makes her way into the ring of the circus tent.발음듣기

Her horse knows the route by heart and plods along in front of her.발음듣기

In a few deft strokes, the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captured both sides of the circus: the glamor of the bright lights and expectant audience, and the weariness of the performer behind the scenes.발음듣기

The drawing now lives in the Getty Museum's collection.발음듣기

Lautrec made it in 1899 in a hospital room where he was being treated for alcoholism and dementia.발음듣기

While there, he made more than 50 circus scenes completely from memory.발음듣기

The subjects - acrobats, equestrian performers, animals - were deeply familiar to him.발음듣기

He made the series to prove to his doctors that he was well again, and it seems to have worked.발음듣기

When he was released from the clinic after only 3 months, he told a friend that he bought his freedom with his drawings.발음듣기

Lautrec was only 4 1/2 feet tall and walked with a cane his whole life.발음듣기

To him more so than for other spectators, the circus performers represented the perfection of muscle, nerves and technique.발음듣기

For Lautrec, the circus was the ideal spectacle, a great celebration of hilarity, glamor and squalor. Lautrec reveled in it.발음듣기

He went often and sketched prolifically.발음듣기

In the late 1800s, circuses, cabarets and dance halls had all become more and more popular with middle-class audiences.발음듣기

These activities offered a new way of participating in public life.발음듣기

People could see and be seen like never before.발음듣기

For the first time, artists began depicting scenes of regular people enjoying themselves.발음듣기

Auguste Renoir painted a couple promenading in the park.발음듣기

Edgar Degas sketched people at cafes and brothels.발음듣기

These and other artists used laundresses, prostitutes, cabaret and circus performers as models.발음듣기

They rendered their subjects in the moment, in the midst of a gesture or conversation.발음듣기

Everyday leisure and entertainment were now at the center of the image.발음듣기

Lautrec drew these scenes with unmatched honesty, capturing the here and now of modern life.발음듣기

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