Monday, August 11, 2025
"A little thing, you know, like a puppet" - how his friends saw him
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All through the sometimes harrowing biography of Lautrec by Julia Frey, there are indescribably cruel and even monstrous descriptions of h...
How many phallic symbols can you cram into one painting??
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I just don't want to let go of my little friend, just yet. Maybe it's just a distraction from the myriad ongoing health "issu...
Sunday, August 10, 2025
This is a little sad, but I had to post it anyway. . .
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So while digging around in Lautrec Land, I found this, a rather sad diagram (in Spanish) listing all the disabilities Lautrec had. It'...
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Toulouse-Lautrec: BLINK
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LAUTREC GIFS: Now it's getting REALLY strange!
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When I decided to look up Lautrec gifs (and somehow, I think the Little Lothario might have liked this strange, primitive form of animation)...
NOW I know what's on his head!
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But I have even less idea what it means! This is one of the many costumes Lautrec liked to don for photographs. He never smiles, which is ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Toulouse! Toulouse! Even More Lost in Lautrec
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Or maybe I'm just lost. My only consolation, these days, is how I can still lose myself in the creative process, whether anyone else s...
Friday, July 25, 2025
Toulouse-Lautrec: zoom in
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Zoom in, zoom out. Of course nothing like this could be accomplished in the era in which this was painted. But perhaps with our painterly ...
Lautrec, Lautrec - I know you too well
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One of my favorite images of Lautrec. Labelled as a "trick photo", I actually think he was magical enough to split himself in ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Lost in Lautrec: why Jose Ferrer was the best Toulouse
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I watched the movie long before I knew very much about the man. But as with that other painter-of-the-people, Van Gogh, Lautrec's artwor...
Toulouse, Toulouse! Why do I feel that I know you?
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OK then, this is NOT going to be an essay. This is NOT going to be a biography (there are plenty of those). This won't be a rehash of t...
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