After the Impressionists talk 5: Toulouse-Lautrec – An Aristocrat in Montmartre

Name: After the Impressionists talk 5: Toulouse-Lautrec – An Aristocrat in Montmartre
Start: 2025-02-15T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-15T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Feb 15 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom | Oxford, EN

Onsite in the Headley Lecture Theatre and Online via Zoom
This talk is £8
Booking is essential, visit website at:
https://www.ashmolean.org/event/after-the-impressionists-talk-5-lautrec
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Toulouse-Lautrec – An Aristocrat in Montmartre
With Juliet Heslewood, art historian and author
The first Impressionist exhibition was in 1874 and caused disruption in the Parisian art world. By the end of the century artists had explored its innovations, liberating them from the conventions of the past. Their dramatic changes, achieved out of the movement, would have wide-spread repercussions, establishing Paris as the centre of the modern European stage.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born into a family of southern aristocrats. But his physical disabilities did not dissuade him from pursuing an artist’s career that required him to live in Paris.
In this talk, Juliet discusses the change in Lautrec's subject matter from familiar scenes of country hunting at home, to the life of brothels and risky cabarets and how this gave rise to the concept of the ‘naughty nineties’.
Through helping his subjects become known, he contributed to the development of modern poster design.
Part of the Change Makers Season