Rousseau by Taschen
• For LAUIL504 and going back to the research session, instead of just composing research through the internet - I want to start using the facilities of the library more and using the breadth and expanse of our art books.
• Roussaeu was seen as an "amusing innocent" in the French art scene, "disregarding all the refinement of French painting and all the achievements of optical illusion." He paid no attention to the history of art nor showed an interest in experimentation, focusing only on the canvas itself.
• His peers were Van Gogh. Matisse, Gauguin, Signac for 25 years and he was seen as the odd one out. His art was seen as a joke and hung in bizarre places.
• Only when he died was his work appreciated and he was seen as a "gentle Douanier" and an eccentric.
• Drew chalk and pencil drawings in his spare "leisure" time along France observing wine, grain milk, salt, and spirits eig transported into the city gates. Simple, visible reality.
• 26 versions of his famous jungle theme were painted from 1904 - 1910. each progressing n composition and imagination.
fifty shades of green, many forms of eucalyptus, banana, sugar cane, fern, palm, cactus.
Characteristic collage style
• Multiplicity of viewpoints
• painted form photographs and traditional models
• His purpose was to show things as they were commonly perceived. informative, self taught artist.
• He hadn't picked up a paint brush until he was in his forties and hd a er naive way of painting - a very simple and unassuming tone of voice
• Roussaeu was seen as an "amusing innocent" in the French art scene, "disregarding all the refinement of French painting and all the achievements of optical illusion." He paid no attention to the history of art nor showed an interest in experimentation, focusing only on the canvas itself.
• His peers were Van Gogh. Matisse, Gauguin, Signac for 25 years and he was seen as the odd one out. His art was seen as a joke and hung in bizarre places.
• Only when he died was his work appreciated and he was seen as a "gentle Douanier" and an eccentric.
• Drew chalk and pencil drawings in his spare "leisure" time along France observing wine, grain milk, salt, and spirits eig transported into the city gates. Simple, visible reality.
• 26 versions of his famous jungle theme were painted from 1904 - 1910. each progressing n composition and imagination.
fifty shades of green, many forms of eucalyptus, banana, sugar cane, fern, palm, cactus.
Characteristic collage style
• Multiplicity of viewpoints
• painted form photographs and traditional models
• His purpose was to show things as they were commonly perceived. informative, self taught artist.
• He hadn't picked up a paint brush until he was in his forties and hd a er naive way of painting - a very simple and unassuming tone of voice
• hidden animals, many layers of plants to portray nature's bounty, a sun, bit of sky, mostly foliage to show how luscious the jungle is. • Oils on canvas showing texture, earthy tones but bright colours of a loud sun, flashes of animals attacking each other, splashes of fruit and flowers.
Book 2: Henri Rousseau - Jungles in Paris
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