My run into "Tournee du chat noir"

  by, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen 

(first I didn't actually run into the piece)

    

    I was in an office building last week and seen this poster on the wall. It caught my eye because of the contrast. I didn't think much of it until I started reading chapter 11 in our textbooks and seen the poster. I was pretty excited that something so old is still being used today, even if it is just for decoration.

Here's a little information on Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen:

·     >He loved cats

·     >First Paris commissions were cat drawings for Le Chat Noir

·     >Was a prolific illustrator, his radical political views, socialist affiliations, and anticlerical stance led him     toward social realism depicting poverty, exploitation, and the working class.

·     >His black-and-white lithographs often had color printed by a stencil process.

·    >His 305 by 228-centimeter (10 by 7-foot) multipanel poster for the printer Charles Verneau mirrored the pedestrians on adjacent Parisian sidewalks in nearly life-sized, environmental scale.