Henri Rousseau and His Surreal Jungle-Inspired Paintings - My …
WEBMay 3, 2020 · The self-taught naïve artist became best-known for his lush jungle scenes—despite having never left France or seen a jungle first-hand. Instead, his now-iconic paintings were inspired by children's books as …
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau | DailyArt Magazine
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Henri Rousseau jungles: Henri Rousseau, Surprised!, 1891, National Gallery, London, UK. It is the first jungle painting of Rousseau. It shows a tiger, illuminated by a flash of lightning, preparing to pounce on its prey in the midst of a raging gale.
Henri Rousseau - 123 artworks - painting - WikiArt.org
WEBRousseau’s painting style was unlike that on any other primitive painter, and many of his paintings were jungle scenes. Although he had never been to a jungle (he actually never left France), many of his paintings depicted oversized plants and wild animals lurking in …
The Dream (Rousseau) - Wikipedia
WEBThe Dream (French: Le Rêve; occasionally also known as Le Songe or Rêve exotique) is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme.
Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris - National Gallery of Art
WEBTiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) was Rousseau's first jungle painting. Although Rousseau never witnessed anything like the scene rendered, the subject matter was not unusual for its time, especially among academic painters, who …
Henri Rousseau - MoMA
WEBThe artist undertook his first jungle painting in 1891, then proceeded to complete around 20 in the next two decades. The last and the largest of these jungle paintings was The Dream (1910), a nighttime scene teeming with life.
Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBHe based the exotic vegetation of his many jungle pictures on studies that he made in Paris’s botanical gardens, and adapted the wild beasts from popular ethnographic journals and illustrated children's books. Rousseau’s nickname, "le Douanier," derives from his job as a customs official. Listen.
Henri Rousseau | Surprised! | NG6421 | National Gallery, London
WEBSurprised! was the first of around 20 ‘jungle’ paintings that Rousseau produced, which are among his most popular works. These jungles are entirely imaginary: Rousseau never left France, despite his claim that he had served with the French army in Mexico.
Henri Rousseau. The Dream. 1910 - MoMA
WEBAug 4, 2012 · Although Rousseau completed more than twenty-five jungle paintings in his career, he never traveled outside France. He instead drew on images of the exotic as it was presented to the urban dweller through popular literature, colonial …
Rousseau in the Jungle - National Gallery of Art
WEBRousseau went to botanical gardens and zoos, studied exotic plants and animals, used illustrations in books and his drawings, and used his imagination as inspiration for Tropical Forest with Monkeys. Does anything look imaginary or strange to you? Background. Henri Rousseau was a toll collector for the city of Paris.