Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Born: November 24, 1864
Died: September 9, 1901 (aged 36)
Bio: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an oeuvre of provocative images of modern life.
Known for:
- Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (1891)
- Woman at Her Toil (1896)
- Divan Japonais (1892)
- The laundress (1886)
- In salon of rue des Moulins (1894)