1. Art Awareness – Henry Rousseau Jeffrey Zalc Mrs. Fister’s 3 rd grade class February 24, 2014

2. Henry Rousseau

3. Henry Rousseau – His Origin Artist who was born in 1844 in Lavel, France

4. Henry Rousseau – Life and Art Although he didn’t do well in school, he excelled in art and music. He wanted to be an artist, but his paren ts could not afford to send him to art school. Rousseau quit his job as a toll collector at age 49 to paint full-time. Rousseau painted scenes of Paris and its suburbs, bouquets of flowers, portraits of his friends, and forests populated by wild and fantastic beasts. He created a lush imaginary world that was inspired by what he saw in advertisements and at the botanical garden in Paris. While Rousseau’s work was not easily classified into any artistic style of the time, it has been considered a forerunner of Surrealism because of its dream-like sensibility. Art critics and the public ridiculed his work. No matter what the art critics said, Rousseau knew his work was good. Once he gave his grandchild a painting he made and said ―Hold on to this. One day it will be worth a hundred thousand francs.‖ He was almost right, because his paintings are worth far more than that. Today his paintings are shown in the greatest museums of the world. – One of his paintings sold in 2009 for $2,882,500.

5. Henry Rousseau –Art and Style Famous for painting jungle scenes and human figures He never left France or was in a jungle – Read and talked to people who had traveled, plus visited botanical gardens – "When I go into the glass houses and I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream.“ Entirely self-taught and known as a “naive” artist – Painted in “childlike”, flat style with little perspective – Bright, vivid colors – Simple shapes

6. Exotic Landscape (1908) Exotic—Unusual or excitingly different in color or design. Landscape—A scene or view of land, such as mountains, fields and forests

7. Exotic Landscape (1908) Exotic—Unusual or excitingly different in color or design. Landscape—A scene or view of land, such as mountains, fields and forests

8. Exotic Landscape (1908) Exotic—Unusual or excitingly different in color or design. Landscape—A scene or view of land, such as mountains, fields and forests

9. Exotic Landscape (1908) Artistic Elements: Color Shape Repetition Contrast

10. Exotic Landscape (1908) Dark monkeys play among the lush foliage. Several monkeys in the foreground are nearly concealed and peek out from behind the tropical greenery, as does the red sun hanging low in the sky. Several shapes repeat throughout this painting. The organic shapes of leaves and fronds repeat to create the dense tropical forest. Orange circles (tropical fruits, perhaps?) repeat from top to bottom in this painting and serve to move our eye around the work by providing a visual link of warm color that contrasts with the cool greens that dominate the scene. Rousseau repeated a line of white tipped snake plants across the bottom of the painting providing an anchor for the vertical format of this scene. The bright plants visually contrast with the darker foliage and provide textural contrast with the other leaves and fronds in the painting.

11. Exotic Landscape (1910)

12. Craft Make a jungle scene of your own like those of Rousseau! Use white paper as your background Create a jungle scene using: Vivid colors of markers Cutting out animal- or plant- shapes from foam or colored paper and gluing them on HAVE FUN!