Toulouse-Lautrec: Salon of the Rue des Moulins
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a French artist-chronicler
of Parisian nightlife of the 1890s, painted At the Salon of the Rue
des Moulins (1894), one of a series of Parisian brothel scenes begun
in 1892. This oil painting illustrates Toulouse-Lautrec's use of the "cut-off"
figure to suggest that the scene extends beyond the frame and that the
viewer sees an instantaneous or accidental glimpse of a moving object--similar
to that caught by a camera. (Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY)
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Source:
"Toulouse-Lautrec: Salon of the Rue des Moulins," Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia. Grolier, Inc., 2001. <http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/gme_bp?assetid=aa599&assettype=p>
(May 20, 2001).