Moulin Rouge: La Goulue popular French club, Moulin Rouge. Their audience is reduced to silhouettes in order to focus attention on the performers and evoke the Japanese art then in vogue. The triple repetition of the club's name draws the focus down to the central figure of the poster, La Goulue herself. The stark white of her petticoats, depicted with just a few lines on the white paper, epitomizes Toulouse-Lautrec's boldly simplistic style, a sharp break from the text-heavy posters of the day. The Moulin Rouge had opened two years earlier, in 1889, and instantly established itself as a Montmartre landmark. It was renowned
The Forest in Winter at Sunset (painting) the empty trees above. The Forest in Winter at Sunset (painting) The Forest in Winter at Sunset is a mid-19th century oil painting by Théodore Rousseau. The painting, which depicts a forested landscape in wintertime, is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Forest in Winter at Sunset" was painted by French painter Théodore Rousseau between 1846 and 1867. The large painting (described by one source as "monumental") took years for the artist to complete; it was only at the urging of friends that Rousseau finished the scene. Rousseau is widely recognized for his melancholic landscape paintings,