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Henri Rousseau
Naive French Painter
and The Father of Surrealism
1844-1910
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Education - Self-taught
Cause of Death - Old Age
Artist Bio
Henri
Rousseau was one of the most original voices to emerge from the 19th
century. According to author and art historian, Mardsen Hartley
"Rousseau began his career as painter at the age
of forty, though it is quite possible and probable that he was painting
whenever he could, in his untutored fashion, in all of his spare
intervals, and with but one object in view apparent: to give forth in
terms of painting those phases of his own personal life which remained
indelibly impressed upon his memory, pictorially always vivid to him,
as in his pictures they are seen to be the scenes or incidents of
loveliness to his fine imagination.
Hartley concludes "In Rousseau then, we have
one of the finest individual expressions of the amateur spirit in
painting, taking actually a place among the examples of paintings, such
as those of the Kwakiutl Indians, or the sculpture of the Congo people,
partaking of the very same quality of directness and simplicity, and of
contact with the prevailing image chosen for representation. He was too
evidently the product of himself, he was not hybrid, nor was he in any
sense something strange springing up out of the soil in the dark of
night, he was not mushroom. He did not know the meaning of affectation,
and I doubt if he even knew what was meant by simplicity, so much was
he that element himself."
Henri Rousseau Quotations
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.-- Henri
Rousseau Quote
To Picasso "We are the two greatest painters of this era: you in the
Egyptian style and I in the modern style!" --Henri Rousseau Quote
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Major Artists Associated with the
Post-Impressionist Movement
Paul
Cézanne (1839
- 1906) French,
Paul
Gauguin (1848 - 1903) French
Henri
Rousseau (1844-1910)
Henri
de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864
- 1897) French
Vincent
van Gogh (1853
- 1890) Dutch
Edouard
Vuillard (1868-1940) French
Important Charactoristics, Words and Phrases Associated with the Post-Impressionism Movement - Roger Fry, 1910, France, Ambroise Vollard, geometric forms, Paris, arbitrary colour, esoteric, Synthetist style, landscapes, Parisian cafe Culture, 19th-century, Paris, soleil levant, open composition, impasto, vibrant, effets de soir, natural light, en plein air, Académie des Beaux-Arts, boating, leisure activities, Landscapes, modernization, synthetic pigments, industrialization, Independent Collective, avant-garde, Primitivism, Symbolist, France, French painters, The Académie Suisse, controversial ideas about painting, physics of colour, broader strokes, fleeting impression of colour and light, bright, vibrant, flowers, figures, modern art
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