A Visual Interpretation of Lautrec’s “At the Moulin Rogue”

The picture At the Moulin Rouge by Lautrec gives me a smell of gaudiness and legal action as I look at it. It shows the diverse kinds of activities done in the Moulin Rogue however, it seems to lack the glamour and fanciness of a typical nighttime club.Even the pillowcases of the women, who I assume argon hospitality girls, as is normal in a nightclub, lack luster, instead they are painted using pale change the blue hints on the face of the woman on the duty even leads me to think that the woman is sickly.Noticeable also are the expressions in the faces of the people. As opposed to the excitement that would be expected in the faces of people who go our partying in the evening, the faces in the painting seem to show a certain level of dissatisfaction, misery, or boredom. Even the smile of the woman on the well(p) side seems to be forced.The dominance of earth alter and faded hues in the painting give the lulu a touch sensationing of tiredness and gloom. The colors seem to m ake the painting drab instead of what it is supposed to be as a painting of a club where people frequent in the evenings for drinks. These are not the kinds of colors that one would normally see in a night club even so, if it is set during an proto(prenominal) period where people would most likely be more flamboyant as compared to party-goers of today.There is also a lack of light in the painting despite the consideration that this is a night club and it opens in the evenings, it is strange that the light sources in the painting seem to be diffused or faded. The colors and the visible radiation in the painting give me an overall feeling of monotony and blandness, like when you taste a instal of cake and it is not as sweet as expected despite the visual appearance of the cake.If I was to take notice of composition in the painting, the elements are quite scattered, perhaps to give the viewer a feeling of activity. However, there are certain theatrical roles of the painting where bundle is drawn towards, like the central portion which shows a group of people gathered near a table and looking down on the table, probably at cards (for gambling), and the lady at the right side of the painting.These elements of the composition that grab my sight were probably put there to emphasize what these elements denote.As mentioned earlier, the feeling that I loll around when I see the face of the lady is one of illness and a forced sense of joy, so the painter must take a shit wanted the viewer to feel these emotions which is why he emphasized the element in the first fix by putting it in a composition hotspot. The central table also has the comparable effectuate of drawing the viewer towards that area of the painting, which shows, as well the pale faces of the people and the pensive moods that they are in.There is a dominance of curved lines in the picture as clearly shown by the backrest of the chair, the borders of the dresses of the ladies, and the outlines of the glasses and the bottles this special(a) dominance of curved lines gives the painting a sluggish feel.As would normally be done, curved lines are unremarkably used to invoke grace and softness, but in the painting these lines, in combination with the other elements someway convey the feeling of lethargy to the viewer that although there is activity in the Moulin Rogue, the people participating in the activity seem to be tired of what they are doing, or perhaps tired of something else which is why they waste their snip in a pub.It also gives me the feeling that the people in the painting have been doing what they are supposedly doing in the painting for many, many times, repeatedly, and have grown exhausted of it.In terms of contrast, the painting is apparently, intentionally hazy and grainy, again making the viewer strain hard enough when looking into the painting.This gives me an added feeling of tiredness around the eyes, effectively conveying the physical equivalent of t he abstract emotions that the painting would like to convey. The different textures in the painting again, give me a feeling of activity, the movements, and the brushstrokes all show the repletion of activity in the painting. So, although I feel that the painting is about activity in the pub, it sends out a different message.A detail to note in the painting is the sporadic clean and sharp lines on the gentlemens top hats. This sets the men apart from the women, talent the viewer a sense of aggressiveness when viewing the men in the painting in particular(a) however, even with this particular feature, notice again that the rims of these top hats are down turned, again giving the viewer the same feeling of tiredness from the painting.The piece, is also, in a way imbalanced, drawing the viewers sight to the right side and the center areas of the painting in particular but perhaps the artist intended this to be to give the viewer a feeling of drowsiness or disorder the feeling that one would get from intoxication, which also, by the way, is achieved by the bluntness in contrast, the graininess, and the noise in the painting.Overall, the elements of color, lines, balance, contrast, and texture in the painting head to its general feel. Art is always intentional and the emotions that it convey to a viewer are quite likely, the same emotions that the artist wanted to convey in the first place.Strictly speaking though, a painting of a night club or a pub would contain a diversity of bright psychedelic colors if the norm was to be followed. However, because perhaps the painter wanted to convey a sense of irony in the painting, the artist succeeded in using the elements of art to achieve this effect.