OK, now... the painting we're looking at now is
by the French painter Toulouse-Lautrec(图卢兹 - 劳特累克). The painting is
called 'At the Moulin Rouge(红磨坊)'. As you probably know, the Moulin
Rouge is a nightclub in Paris. Maybe some of you remember the movie
Moulin Rouge? In the nineteenth century, the nightclub was very
famous for its beautiful dancers and singers. Toulouse-Lautrec did
a lot of paintings and posters of the Moulin Rouge. He especially
loved painting the dancers. And in these paintings he sometimes
included his friends, too.
In the middle of the picture,
there are five people who are sitting at a table having a drink.
The woman who's wearing a black and white hat is a dancer-her name
is La Macarona-and the man sitting next to her on the left is a
friend of Toulouse-Lautrec's. He was a photographer. On the right,
here, there's a woman with blond hair, blue eyes, and very red
lips. Her face looks very white. That's another famous dancer
called Jane Avril. At the back of the picture, on the right, there
are two women who are standing together. One of them is touching
her hair. That's La Goulue, and she was one of the most famous
singers at the Moulin Rouge at that time.
Now this is very interesting. If you look
carefully to the left of the two women, there are two men walking
out of the nightclub. One of them is very tall and the other one is
very short. The very tall man is Toulouse-Lautrec's cousin Gabriel,
and the other man is Toulouse-Lautrec himself. Toulouse-Lautrec was
only one meter 50 centimeters tall. He had very short legs and
couldn't walk very well. Some people think that this is why he
loved painting the dancers of the Moulin Rouge... because the all
had beautiful, long legs.
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