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 | Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 -- September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naive or Primitive manner. He is also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his place of employment. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.He was born in Laval in the Loire Valley into the family of a plumber. He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He was mediocre in some subjects at the high school but won prizes for drawing and music.He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army," serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his father's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. With his new job in hand, in 1869 he started a relationship with a cabinetmaker's daughter, Clémence Boitard, who became his first wife and he wrote a waltz bearing her name. They went on to have nine children but tuberculosis was rife at the time and seven died at an early age.In 1871, he was promoted to the toll collector's office in Paris as a tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art.His wife died in 1888 and he later remarried.Rousseau claimed he had "no teacher other than nature", although he admitted he had received "some advice" from two established Academic painters, Félix Auguste-Clément and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to be a naive or primitive painter.His best known paintings depict jungle scenes, even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Stories spread by admirers that his army service included the French expeditionary force to Mexico are unfounded. His inspiration came from illustrated books and the botanical gardens in Paris, as well as tableaux of "taxidermified" wild animals. He had also met soldiers, during his term of service, who had survived the French expedition to Mexico and listened to their stories of the subtropical country they had encountered. To the critic Arsène Alexandre, he described his frequent visits to the Jardin des Plantes: "When I go into the glass houses and I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream."Along with his exotic scenes there was a concurrent output of smaller topographical images of the city and its suburbs.He claimed to have invented a new genre of portrait landscape, which he achieved by starting a painting with a view such as a favourite part of the city, and then depicting a person in the foreground.Rousseau's work exerted an "extensive influence ... on several generations of vanguard artists, starting with Picasso and including Léger, Beckmann and the Surrealists," according to Roberta Smith, an art critic writing in The New York Times. "Beckmann's amazing self-portraits, for example, descend from the brusque, concentrated forms of Rousseau's portrait of the writer Pierre Loti"In 1911 a retrospective exhibition of Rousseau's works was shown at the Salon des Indépendants. His paintings were also shown at the first Blaue Reiter exhibition.Two major museum exhibitions of his work were held in 1984-85 (in Paris, at the Grand Palais; and in New York, at the Museum of Modern Art) and in 2001 (Tübingen, Germany). "These efforts countered the persona of the humble, oblivious naïf by detailing his assured single-mindedness and tracked the extensive influence his work exerted on several generations of vanguard artists," critic Roberta Smith wrote in a review of a later exhibition.A major exhibition of his work, "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris," was shown at Tate Modern from November 2005 for four months, organised by the Tate and the Musée d'Orsay, where the show also appeared. The exhibition, encompassing 49 of his paintings, was on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington from July 16--October 15, 2006.A major collection of Rousseau's work were shown at The Grand Palais from March 15 to June 19, 2006. |
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 | Night This animation was made using images (with permission) from NGAkids JUNGLE (NGAkids ART ZONE / National Gallery of Art) (http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/jungle.htm). NGAkids JUNGLE is inspired by the paintings of Henri Rousseau. |
 | The Sleeping Gypsy - Rousseau (Animated Painting Loop 02) Fun infinitely looping clip! Embed this time-lapse animation loop of Henri Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy" Post-Impressionist painting set to music onto your website and it will loop continuously. Embedding codes available for this looping clip on the tktimelapse link above, where you can also see this loop in action. More painting loops available and on the way. |
 | Neil Diamond -- Done Too Soon Neil Diamond's "Done Too Soon" set to images using http://www.simplestar.com/software/photoshowAll music, lyrics, images, copyright their respective owners.Song: Done Too SoonArtist: Neil DiamondAlbum: Tap Root ManuscriptJesus Christ, Fanny Brice,Wolfie Mozart and Humphrey Bogart andGenghis Khan andOn to H. G. Wells.Ho Chi Minh, Gunga DinHenry Luce and John Wilkes BoothAnd AlexandersKing and Graham Bell.Rama Krishna, Mama Whistler,Patrice Lumumba and Russ Colombo,Karl and Chico Marx,Albert Camus.E. A. Poe, Henri Rousseau,Sholom Aleichem and Caryl Chessman,Alan Freed andBuster Keaton tooAnd each one thereHas one thing shared:They have sweated beneath the same sun,Looked up in wonder at the same moon,And wept when it was all doneFor bein' done too soon,For bein' done too soon.For bein' done. |
 | plankton_1 (henri rousseau) Video preview of first design for plankton_shirts, I remixed one of Rousseau well-known pictures - L'Enfant à la poupée. Check www.plankton.uvadi.cz!(music is excerpt from sound_installation by Biosphere) |
 | rousseau book review http://www.dariointernet.com/blog.htmlHenri Rousseau who was a French naïve ( naive ) art painter. He used to create these gorgeous fantastic jungle and nature scenaries. |
 | Henri Julien Felix Rousseau Paintings Henri Rousseau , 1844-1910, French primitive painter, b. Laval. He was entirely self-taught, and his work remained consistently naive and imaginative. Rousseau was called Le Douanier [the customs officer] because he held a minor post in the Paris customs service for more than 20 years before he retired to paint (1893). Although he claimed to have lived in Mexico in his youth, he later admitted that the claim was false. The only tropical vegetation Rousseau ever saw was in Parisian greenhouses, and his remarkable landscapes had no counterpart in nature. His painted jungles are an organized profusion of carefully defined yet fantastic plants, half-concealing various wild animals with startlingly staring eyes. These scenes are rendered in a vivid, almost hypnotic folk style. The finest ones include The Snake Charmer (1907; Louvre) and The Dream (1910; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City). With the same approach Rousseau employed in painting the familiar (e.g., Village Street Scene, 1909; Philadelphia Mus. of Art), he painted the haunting and dreamlike Sleeping Gypsy (1897; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City). His fantastic Gypsy sleeps in a nighttime desert, closely observed by a lion?the entire absurdity rendered in a compelling, straightforward manner. The painting thus combines the unique elements of Rousseau's art to their most startling effect. Rousseau exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1886, but did not become well known until the early years of the 20th cent. when he was "taken up" by Picasso , Apollinaire , and other members of the Parisian avant garde. http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Post-Impressionism/Henri+Rousseau/Video provided by Allpaintings Art Portal.Music: Kevin Johansen, Candombito |
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