Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In this painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec there are three women. The women on the left are both dressed in bright colors. But you will notice that the girl on the right is in all black. To me that would be rhetorical based on the fact that everything else is bright and happy. But the lady in the black is the negative member in the group. Another rhetorical part of the painting that i pointed out was the background. It’s almost as if they are having desert with a jungle effect. That’s surely something that can’t be explained. I've noticed that they are having desert in a picnic fashion but they are not outside. This would bring me back to the background effect. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is very good with showing rhetorical objects in his paintings. Neither of the girls in this painting is dressed to the occasion, but they all seem to be enjoying themselves. Another thing that caught my eye was that the lady on the right appears to have a tattoo on your arm. In this situation a women with a tattoo, dressed in all black doesn’t add up to the mood of this painting. Then I pointed out the fact that the lady on the left is wearing different types of clothing and things you could wear for different occasions at one time. The last thing that I would like to point out would be how everything that is laid out on the floor is all types of deserts except for a bowl of fruit.