Question

Toulouse-Lautrec, influenced by Japanese and medieval art, created paintings with ________ colors and simplified forms that sometimes verged on caricature.

Answer 1

Answer: flattened

Explanation: he utilized flattened colors in his paintings, as well as simplified forms that sometimes verged on caricature

Answer 2

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, influenced by Japanese and medieval art, created paintings with flattened colors and simplified forms that sometimes verged on caricature. Lautrec’s posters style was deeply inclined by ukiyo-e prints of the Japanese. Parts of flat color bound by solid silhouettes, heavy outlines, slanted points are all distinctive of piece patterns by Japanese artists like Utagawa Hiroshige and  Katsushika Hokusai.