Or Henri or something? ...that's his first name, and I really like his artwork!
2006-07-25 17:07:28 · 13 answers · asked by aanstalokaniskiodov_nikolai 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Of course I know they're different eras, different styles, etc! I just thought the requirement was "great artists," and I think that Toulouse-Lautrec certainly meets that requirement!
2006-07-25 17:19:09 · update #1
Good question!
I had two cats, one named Toulouse, and another named Lautrec.
2006-07-25 17:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by D'oh! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird experimented with drastically different looks for each Turtle, but finally settled upon a singular outfit that they all would wear. Each Ninja Turtle was named after a well renown Renaissance artist. "We had all the Japanese fighting methods, but we didn't want to make up Japanese names because we thought they'd seem too strange to American readers. So we decided to go in the opposite direction and used distinctly European names. We both had studied art history, so we picked Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo." Back in those days, neither Kevin nor Peter had a computer with a spell-checker, so Michelangelo was misspelled as "Michealangelo", fortunately everyone seems to get the message, regardless of the additional letter "a".
As for Toulouse-Lautrec he was born later not during the Renaissance period these creative artists chose their character names.
2006-07-26 00:29:42 · answer #2 · answered by cmpiazza1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they we're named after the rat characters favourite Rennaissance artists. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is whole different kettle of fish not to mention a totally different era.
The creator of TMNT didn't have your likes and interests in mind either, when coming up with the premise is another reason.
2006-07-26 00:14:11 · answer #3 · answered by Todd's 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are all looking into this a wee bit much
THE TURTLES IS A CARTOON FOR KIDS!!!!!!
yeah donatello michaelangelo leanardo and Toulouse-Lautrec
a dont bloody think so
sheesh
2006-07-26 01:18:59 · answer #4 · answered by Osie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe becauseToulouse-Lautrec was not a renaissance artist and the others were.
2006-07-26 00:14:35 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They all didn't make it thru the experiement. Cause you know there are like a hundred in a batch of turtle eggs.
2006-07-26 00:11:01 · answer #6 · answered by gnomes31 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there are only four and those are the Artist the Splinter likes and since he was naming them, that's what he chose.
2006-07-26 00:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by Rocks#1Fan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause there named after the good artists
2006-07-26 00:11:17 · answer #8 · answered by yankfan1226 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the turtles were too tall.
2006-07-26 03:13:22 · answer #9 · answered by Debbie S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always wondered why there wasn't one called DiCaprio.
2006-07-26 15:37:38 · answer #10 · answered by itty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋