Why it matters
Can-can dancers kick up their legs at the Moulin Rouge, painted in tiny pointillist dots that fuse in the viewer's eye. It became a target for critics and was widely discussed among Symbolists.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1889–1890.
- It influenced the Fauves, Cubists, Futurists and Orphists.
- It once belonged to the poet Gustave Kahn.
Based on the Wikipedia article Le Chahut (CC BY-SA 4.0).
