Sketch Book for the Artist

PLACE AND MOMENT

The heat and teeming

atmosphere of this Parisian

dressing room, left, lives on,

more than 100 years after its

making. Lautrec's flamboyant

splashes of petticoats and

pantaloons are drawn with

long sweeps of chalk and

brushed oil paint. He dazzles

us with flashes of light and

dabbed marks of shadow,

which evoke realities of place

and the power of moment.

Woman at her Toilet

c.

41 x 26 in (104 x 66 cm)

TOULOUSE LAUTREC

RIB-CAGE DRAMA

Thus drama, right is set inside a

rib cage, one of many luminous

works in watercolor, acrylic,

pastel, gold leaf and spray

paint, made by a young British

artist who creates alphabets

of the absurd from familiar

childhood characters. Walter

also makes books: some, like

folded insects, stand table-sized

with furniture legs attached to

both sides of their jacket.

Focusing on the Negative

2004

22 x 30 in (56 x 76 cm)

JOHN WALTER

INTRODUCTION