February** Dynamic Incentive Program
At the end of the 19th century, Paris gathered a large number of artists from all over the world, they often went in and out of the café, at that time the café was the main social and entertainment place in Paris, at the peak there were tens of thousands, the most famous is the Moulin Rouge, many painting masters have painted the scene in the Moulin Rouge, such as Toulouse Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Van Gogh was also in the café every day when he was in Paris.
The cancan was the most popular dance in cafes at the time, and some people describe it as kicking your thighs to the ceiling.
Jean Gabriel Domeg was a pupil of Toulouse Lautrec, and their subjects were largely the same, both of them were female figures in the entertainment venues of Paris, but Lautrec painted outdated dancing girls, old and decrepit, while Gabriel painted young and fashionable women.
Born in 1889, Gabriel settled in Paris after graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Paris as a professional painter. He became famous very early, exhibiting his work at official salon exhibitions at the age of 17, and it was both fame and fortune, and it is said that he bought a villa in his 30s. Years later, Gabriel transformed the villa into an art gallery, where works by Lautrec and Van Gogh were exhibited. Gabriel never met Van Gogh, but his teachers Lautrec and Van Gogh were good friends, and they used to hang out in cafes together and paint portraits of each other.
Gabriel's female figures are not realistic, but somewhat exaggerated and deformed, exaggerated slender waist and long neck, all young and beautiful, full of amorous style, and the interesting thing is that the painter often paints an ugly man as a companion, which makes the picture very interesting.
The era of romantic and beautiful Paris** is gone, and we can only reminisce about the years in the works of the masters. As the writer Ernest Hemingway wrote in his memoirs, "If you are lucky enough to live in Paris, then wherever you go, Paris will accompany you, because Paris is a flowing feast." ”