the moulin de la galette was its center.ulin de la galette was basically a worker's dance hall, and, so, it was kind of the guts of montmartre. it's where the workers went. it's where prostitutes went. it's where the robber would be, and so forth. it was really the heart of, not bohemian life, but of working-class impoverished life in montmartre. (narrator) in moulin de la galette, toulouse-lautrec provided a snap-shot of a seedy, nocturnal world. in the background, a frieze of dancers and their spectators... to the side a policeman keeps the peace. and in the foreground, a watchful quartet-- prostitutes and their pimp-- sizing up prospects. lautrec paints it in a way that not only does the subject matter come across as this seedy, sordid surrounding, but the paint is applied in a similar way. he takes very liquid paint, which he thinned out with turpentine, and streaks it across the canvas. so he creates a very, almost sub-aqueous atmosphere, and people picked up on that right away. (narrator) in may of 1889, a reproduction

the moulin de la galette was its center.in de la galette was basically a worker's dance hall, and, so, it was kind of the guts of montmartre. it's where the workers went. it's where prostitutes went. it's where the robber would be, and so forth. it was really the heart of, not bohemian life, but of working-class impoverished life in montmartre. (narrator) in moulin de la galette, toulouse-lautrec provided a snap-shot of a seedy, nocturnal world. in the background, a frieze of dancers and their spectators... to the side a policeman keeps the peace. and in the foreground, a watchful quartet-- prostitutes and their pimp-- sizing up prospects. lautrec paints it in a way that not only does the subject matter come across as this seedy, sordid surrounding, but the paint is applied in a similar way. he takes very liquid paint, which he thinned out with turpentine, and streaks it across thcanvas. so he creates a very, almost sub-aqueous atmosphere, and people picked up on that right away. (narrator) in may of 1889, a reproduction of