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Henri Rousseau
Naive French Painter and
The Father of Surrealism
1844-1910
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Stylistically influenced by the following painters; Egyptian, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Assyrian Art, Manuscript Illumination, and The Byzantine Style
Education - Self-taught
Cause of Death - Old Age
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
William Blake (1757 - 1827) English,
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Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with the Visionary painting- self-taught, personal vision, dreams, inner process, Folk art, mystical experience, metaphysical Otherness, entoptic imagery, personal revelations, mythic archetypes, revelation art, personal iconography, untrained artist, spiritual symbolism, outsider, hallucinogenic intoxication, eccentric personalities, madness, fantastic components, Symbolism, Surrealism , spiritually significant, biblical themes, ethereal backgrounds, Christian symbolism, physic visions, narrative painting, Neosurrealism
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