toulouse lautrec
... At least, this is what one would get from viewing Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s several paintings and lithographs. With a hint of Japanese influence, his asymmetric composition and flat area of color usage, Toulouse-Lautrec created representations of life in Montmartre and Paris during the Bohemian Revolution in the late 19th century. In Albi, France, on November 24, 1864, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born into an aristocratic family. ... In 1872, the Toulouse’s family moved to Paris. His father, Count Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse, was a wealthy, handsome, and arrogant man. ... Toulouse-Lautrec’s mother, on the other hand, did everything she could for her only living child. ... 2 As a result of being a sickly and weak child, Toulouse-Lautrec did not have the pleasures that his peers did. ... Although, while other boys were climbing trees at ten years old, Toulouse-Lautrec took up drawing and painting to safely use up his time. Unfortunately, being vulnerable to fractures because of a genetic bone condition, Toulouse-Lautrec broke his left leg at twelve years old. At fourteen, while other teenage boys were breaking bones playing sports, Toulouse-Lautrec’s condition was breaking him. ... As the rest of his body grew normally, Toulouse-Lautrec’s legs did not. ... Toulouse-Lautrec’s parents could be the ones at fault for his deformity.