A closer look at Henri Rousseau’s ‘The Merry Jesters’ reveals a complex artwork by a complicated man Henri Rousseau was a customs official who worked at a toll gate and only took up painting in his ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Known for his strange jungle scenes and dreamscapes, Henri Rousseau was a self-taught ...
As explained in the exhibition Directed by Rembrandt, currently on view at the Rembrandthuis Museum in Amsterdam, the 17th-century Dutch painter could spend up to two days binding a turban worn by one ...
"Surprised!," painted in 1891: A bug-eyed tiger caught off guard by a tropical storm, which lashes the most gorgeously exotic jungle. No other painting does as good a job conveying the "fearful ...
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A Once-in-a-Generation Henri Rousseau Exhibition Highlights the Strangeness and Luminosity of His Paintings
There is a tremendous patience in Henri Rousseau (b. 1844), on view as part of a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His Rendezvous in the Forest (1889) meticulously reproduces ...
THE thing about Henri Rousseau is that he never seems to fit. What to make of a self-taught artist who worked as a clerk in a customs office, took up painting in middle age and conceived of himself as ...
In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative portraits, landscapes and jungle scenes, submitting them to Paris’ ...
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