The Henri deToulouse-Lautrec painting I chose to analyze for rhetorical elements was, Jane Avril. The painting is simple and mainly just contour lines and a little bit of color. De Toulouse-Lautrec does a fantastic job of capturing the motion of the can-can dancer’s high kicks. Another cool aspect of this painting is how the artist uses the neck of the upright base in the foreground as part of the frame of the image. It seems to draw the viewer’s eye to the action. The audience Mr. de Toulouse-Lautrec is seeking is adult males. After researching the painting I found the Jane Avril was a famous can-can dancer of the era. The painting is a sort of advertising for her can-can high kick show. The purpose of this painting is to show how exciting Mrs. Avril’s shows are and give the viewer a sense of being their without having attended and thus want to come and see if it lives up to the bill. It’s essentially an advertisement. Mr. Toulouse-Lautrec painted several can-can and burlesque themed paintings so I am assuming he is a fan of those sorts of places and women playing that role. The genre of this work is visual art. The media is a painting.
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