Photos on Helen’s Blog – April 19-May 17, 2014
Collage: helenoppenheim.com
Check out the photos on Helen’s Blog from April 19th to May 17, 2014. You will see there are many Toulouse-Lautrec, Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau posts. Scroll down to Page 2 where there’s more to be seen, including the most detailed Toulouse-Lautrec post, and plenty of other interesting photos and stories, plus credits. Scroll right to the end of the Blog, if you want to see all the photos on the Blog, or for collages of them all, click here. If you really want to know your hair history, check the website where are now over 3,000 photos with lots of information and tutorials and more …
CommentPhotos On Helen’s Blog – April 19-May 17, 2014
Collage: helenoppenheim.com
Check out the photos on Helen’s Blog from April 19th to May 17, 2014. You will see there are many Toulouse-Lautrec, Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau posts. Scroll down to past the first few pages where there’s more to be seen, including the most detailed Toulouse-Lautrec post, and plenty of other interesting photos and stories, plus credits. Scroll right to the end of the Blog, if you want to see all the photos on the Blog, or for collages of them all, click here. If you really want to know your hair history, check the website where are now over 3,000 photos with lots of information and tutorials and more …
CommentToulouse-Lautrec Belle Epoque Hair – 1900
La Modiste by Toulouse-Lautrec
This is Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s La Modiste, 1900. She is Mlle. Renée Vert (Mme. Le Murgouin) and she had a shop in Montmartre. No idea if this will be in the MoMA Museum Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition opening on July 26 in NYC but her hair was Belle Epoque, trending for 2014.
For more Toulouse-Lautrec, Belle Epoque and Art Nouveau inspiration, scroll down this blog, all the way down Page One, and to Page Two. From the book, Toulouse-Lautrec, with text by Douglas Cooper, Thames & Hudson, published in 1955, a great resource with 55 reproductions in full color and 63 illustrations in monochrome.
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Drawings by Mucha
The Belle Epoque, the Art Nouveau era will trend with the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition at MoMA Museum in NYC, opening July 26. Be inspired … And scroll down to the second page, where there’s more, including the key Lautrec background to know.
Art Nouveau drawings and design in the landmark Style Book published in1905, Mucha’s Figures Decoratives are by one of the most-famous decorative artists in Paris at the turn of the century, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939.) He loved long hair, was obsessed with curves coiling around idealized women which, with his Sarah Bernhardt posters, made him famous then, and to this day. For the book on Amazon, click (but know the front cover color is warmer on my copy!)
CommentBe Inspired. But Have A Heart!
Collage: helenoppenheim.com
Hoping to inspire you with the Toulouse-Lautrec MoMA exhibition lithos and posters, and the Belle Epoque era posts on this blog. The next 7 posts. And more to come as we near the July 26 opening. But, please, if you do create photos for publication or for posts on Facebook or other social media after being influenced by this blog, have a heart and remember who inspired you!
CommentThe Clowness at the Moulin Rouge – 1897
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
This is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s La Clownesse au Moulin Rouge (The Clowness at the Moulin Rouge) 1897. The Lithograph will be one of the many Lautrec Lithos and Posters at the MoMA exhibition in NY from July 26 to March 1, 2015. Scroll down Helen’s Blog for more. Stay tuned for the fashion and hair worlds interpretations and inspirations of the Belle Epoque era (which includes Art Nouveau) and Paris of the late 19th Century.
Not much is known about the Clowness whose knickname was Cha-U-Kao, which came from an acrobat dance similar to the cancan and “chaos” which came from the uproar when she was dancing at the famous Moulin Rouge. The costume she wore could be fashionable today. And we love the hair tied way up there in a yellow ribbon.
CommentToulouse-Lautrec @ MoMA – 1890s
Toulouse-Lautrec Lithographs. Collage: helenoppenheim.com
Here are some of Toulouse-Lautrec’s Lithographs coming to the MoMA Museum in NYC, a must-see exhibit from July 26 – March 2, 2015. The bright orange and yellow hair Lautrec painted, everything Belle Epoque and Art Nouveau will be fodder for fashion – and the hair world. Scroll down for more Toulouse-Lautrec blogs. Be inspired. Stay tuned for more …
Top left to right: La Troupe de Mademoiselle Églantine (Mademoiselle Églantine’s Troupe) 1896 … Jane Avril, 1899 … Divan Japonais, 1893. Bottom left to right: Babylone d’Allemagne (German Babylon). 1894 … Confetti, 1894 … Reine de joie (Queen of Joy) 1892.
CommentGibson Girl Hair – 1890s
Illustrations: Charles Dana Gibson
With MoMA’s Toulouse Lautrec exhibition (July 26-March 1, 2015) everything Belle Epoque will inspire fashion – and hair. It’s one step from Lautrec’s Paris during the era to the American hair of the era, which was piled deliciously on top of the head. Watch this updo trend. The hair in these illustrations by American artist, Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) tell the story. These are his Gibson Girls. The man is a café artist in Paris. “The Gibson Girl and Her America” is a book worth checking out, available on Amazon, click
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