About The Artist:
Georges Rouault
Born in Paris. French expressionist artist. First apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, Rouault studied after 1891 under Gustave Moreau . He exhibited several paintings with the fauves in 1905. His sorrowful and bitter delineations of judges, clowns, and prostitutes caused a great stir in Paris. The suffering of Christ was his frequent subject. His thickly encrusted, powerfully colored images, outlined heavily in black, have the effect of icons...
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About The Medium:
Poster
Typically created as a temporary promotional print to be put up or handed out in a public space for mass consumption. Posters can be printed as lithographs, screenprints, or offset printing most typically.