Research Paper on:
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

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was but one of the components of the lively Paris nightlife found in Montmartre at the end of the 19th century. It provided Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) with a  beginning point for public display of his artwork in the form of posters for Moulin Rouge, Jane Avril, May Belfort, Chocolat, La Goulue, and Yvette Guilbert. In return, Toulouse-Lautrec  gave Montmartre and its performers a taste of immortality while giving rise to the "can-can," the American Burlesque version of the risqu? quadrille forms performed in Paris nightclubs during the  "gay 90s," the final decade of the 19th century. Along the way, he created advertising art that persists more as art than as advertising more than a century after  his death. Life Influences Toulouse-Lautrec represented the end of a family line extending back more than 1000 years (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec). Frail  and sickly as a young child who spent his time drawing, Toulouse-Lautrec began to grow healthier as he reached puberty. He broke each of his legs, however, one at  the age of 13 and one the following year (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec). Neither of his legs grew any more after being broken, though his torso and his arms reached  normal size, resulting in a body that was normal from the hips up and rested on short little legs that kept his overall height at only 41/2 feet (Henri de  Toulouse-Lautrec). He was a visual "freak" at a time and in a place where possessing such qualities virtually assured him of being rejected  in mainstream society, regardless of his relative worth as a person or as an artist. Toulouse-Lautrec made it his mission to live down to others expectations of him, dying