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

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.  

a chromatic scale uses the twelve tones of the octave, while a regular scale only uses eight, or seven different notes (as the first note is played twice)

homophonic or a tonal