Silas Rekow, 8th Grade Schools will have events, announcements, fundraisers -you name it- that children may embrace the opportunity to advertise for. In this particular project the students that created the posters were involved in the play they were creating their advertising for Wizard of OZ The Deleted Scenes. We looked to the work of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and his poster designs. We also discussed the information we needed to include in order to effectively communicate to our audiences, who was our audience? Arwynne Buss, 8th Grade Materials Sketchbook Pencil Coloring Media, Colored pencils, Sharpie, Markers, Watercolor, Tempera Paper- Poster sized Brushes ![]() Lautrec (1864-1901) eventually established himself as the premier poster artist of Paris and was often commissioned to advertise famous performers in his prints. The pinched features and animated demeanor of the singer Jane Avril, the image wearing one of her famously outlandish hats with a snake, are subjected to the artist’s crystallizing vision. By exaggerating the characteristic features of women performers, Lautrec conveyed the essence of their personalities.
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