The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau | DailyArt Magazine
WEBSep 4, 2024 — Rousseau painted around 25 paintings with a jungle theme. Those densely packed, enigmatic fantasies were painted mostly between the years 1904 and 1910. In this article, we invite you to the dreamy world of Rousseau’s jungle.
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 …
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 …
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 - 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.
The Waterfall - The Art Institute of Chicago
WEBAmong the very last compositions Henri Rousseau painted, The Waterfall is typical of the large-scale jungle scenes for which he gained renown in the 20th century. A self-taught artist who worked by day as a customs agent until the age of 49, Rousseau never set foot outside of France.
The Equatorial Jungle - Henri Rousseau - Google Arts & Culture
WEBDetails. Title: The Equatorial Jungle. Creator: Henri Rousseau. Date created: 1909. Physical Dimensions: overall: 140.6 x 129.5 cm (55 3/8 x 51 in.) framed: 151.8 x 141.3 x 6.9 cm (59 3/4 x 55...
Henri Rousseau: The untrained godfather of modern art - BBC
WEBOct 2, 2015 — In the end, his paintings secured him lasting fame – especially his fantastical, luxuriant jungle scenes, which, with the exception of the tapestry-like Surprised!, also known as Tiger in a...