Henri+Rousseau

=Henri Rousseau=
 * [[image:rousseau_portrait.jpg width="83" height="115"]] ||  || ==Henri Rousseau==

France, 1844-1910
|| =In the Allen Centre...=
 * //Tiger in a Tropical Storm, (Surprised!),// 1981**

__"Nothing makes me happier than to contemplate nature and paint it"__ - //Henri Rousseau//
the zoo and the Botanical Gardens and treasured beautiful books of plants and animal drawings.
 * Henri Rousseau lived in Paris, France. He loved art, poetry and music. He especially loved visiting

Unlike other artists at this time, Henri taught himself how to paint. He spent hours at the Louvre Art Museum in Paris, copying paintings of famous artists, learning how to paint at the same time.

Neither the public nor the art critics liked Rousseau's work. They thought it looked "primitive" and "naive". By this they meant his paintings looked child-like becausethe animals and people didn't look real, the colours were too bright and there was too much detail. In fact his paintings looked like pictures from a story book, rather than serious works of art!**


 * [[image:paris-louvre-pyramid.jpg width="296" height="229"]]
 * The Louvre, Paris** || [[image:s6081p.jpg width="298" height="245"]]
 * //Old Man Junier's Trap,// 1908** ||

with his neighbour, Claude Junier and his family to explore the countryside and the parks. You can see him sitting in the cart, in his yellow hat, his friend Claude, holding the reins.
 * Henri worked in an office as a custom's officer. On Sundays he liked nothing better than to go out

Henri's paintings look a bit like dreams. //Tiger in the Storm// is certainly out of his imagination because Rousseau never visited a tropical jungle in his life! Let's see what makes them interesting:**

__Henri Rousseau's painting tricks:__
cut-out! It's very flat and unnatural looking. After all how could a tiger balance on a leaf!** || of overlapping shapes to trick our eyes into seeing a shallow sort of space rather than the deep jungle that we might expect.** || book kind of way and decorates his picture with tiny details and patterns which in reality the eye wouldn't see.** ||
 * [[image:surpris.jpg]]
 * The tiger doesn't look real. It looks like a cardboard
 * Instead of drawing in 3D, Henri uses lots
 * [[image:Surprise!-1893.jpg]]
 * He uses bright colours for contrast in a picture-

nothing in the forest looks wet!** || A few of his fellow artists admired Rousseau's imagination and the child-like freshness of his work. Picasso even held a dinner in his honour! You'll find //Tiger in the Storm// over the bookshelves on the left of the stage in the Allen Centre.**
 * In spite of the raging storm and pouring rain,
 * Henri used techniques like this to help him express his imaginary view of the world.

Want to create your own Jungle?



 * Visit: http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/jungle.htm

More of Henri's Paintings: //Sleeping Gypsy,// 1897

Visit: http://www.cord.edu/faculty/andersod/rousseau.html**