Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In this picture, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is portraying a woman lying on a bed in the nude. Looking at many of Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings, it seems very common for him to do such paintings of women.     

In this picture of the woman lying naked, I think that Toulouse-Lautrec was trying to catch the eye of the male viewers. After seeing that he has painted many other paintings of females in the nude, I think that Toulouse-Lautrec is a very open minded guy and seems like he would be a supporter of the nude. Not only is this painting viewed towards the eye of males, this could be pointed towards females as well. This could being making a statement to females that it is okay to be nude and that they should be open to the fact of nudity. I think the purpose of this piece was to simply let everyone know how he felt about nudity. Though Toulouse-Lautrec feels this way, I think that in a media stand point it would be unacceptable. It is not socially acceptable to be nude to the public in this day and age.

To conclude, I feel this painting speaks volumes towards people who support nudism. Toulouse-Lautrec is a very skilled painter with many different styles of art. But out of all of them this one stood out because I thought of it as being the most outgoing one. If I were to do a painting, this is not the style I would have thought to do.