Take a Picture …. Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) Henri Rousseau, 1891 Rosmond Milner.
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Take a Picture ….Take a Picture ….Take a Picture ….Take a Picture ….
Tiger in a Tropical Storm Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)(Surprised!)
Henri Rousseau, 1891Henri Rousseau, 1891
Rosmond Rosmond MilnerMilner
First impressions First impressions countcount
describe the painting in ONE word
Look for clues in the pictureLook for clues in the picture
• Subject• Style• Composition• Colour• Mood
Looking at pictures: visual literacyLooking at pictures: visual literacy
• Subject
Is it formal, informal, a portrait, a landscape, a still-life, heroic, exotic, fantastic, ordinary/everyday?
Looking at pictures: visual literacyLooking at pictures: visual literacy
• Style
Is it naïve, childlike, primitive, stylised, bold, simplified, modern, classical?
Looking at pictures: visual literacyLooking at pictures: visual literacy
• Composition
Think about perspective, depth of view, pattern, diagonal lines, movement, rhythm, orientation (portrait or landscape format)?
Looking at pictures: visual literacyLooking at pictures: visual literacy
• Colour
Are the colours bright, warm, hot, strong, bold, complementary colours (red/green, purple/yellow, blue/orange); are there strong tonal contrasts?
Looking at pictures: visual literacyLooking at pictures: visual literacy
• Mood
Is the picture atmospheric, stormy, windy, light and dark, scary, exciting, electric, dramatic?
What can’t can’t we see?
What can’t we see in a reproduction?What can’t we see in a reproduction?
• Size• Texture > brush marks, thickness of paint• Support > canvas, wood, paper• If the colour reproduction is accurate
Art detectivesArt detectivesVisit these websites to find answers for the quiz about Visit these websites to find answers for the quiz about
the painting:the painting:
• www.nationalgallery.org.uk
The National Gallery.Click on Search then scroll down the page to Search the Collection. Type in Rousseau
• www.artchive.com
Mark Harden’s database of artists.Click on the Mona Lisa to enter the site and on H Rousseau in the index on the left. View the Image List
• www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau
The Web Museum, Paris
Art detectivesArt detectives
1. What was the painting first called?
2. When was it made?
3. Where can it be seen now?
4. In what way was the painting a first for Rousseau?
5. Which jungle inspired the painting?
1. Surprise!
2. 1891
3. The National Gallery, London
4. It was his first jungle painting
5. None – Rousseau claimed he served with the army in Mexico, but it was probably inspired by visits to the botanical gardens and zoo in Paris and by illustrated books
6. When was Rousseau born and when did he die?
7. What was his nickname and why?
8. Name one of his other famous paintings?
9. Why is Rousseau known as a naïve artist?
10. Which twentieth century art movement was influenced by his style of painting after his death?
6. 1844 – 1910
7. Le Douanier or Douanier Rousseau because he had been a low-ranking Customs Officer before he retired
8. The Dream, The Sleeping Gypsy, The Football Players
9. Because he was formally untrained and painted in a childlike or “primitive” way
10. Surrealism
Henri Rousseau, Le DouanierHenri Rousseau, Le Douanier
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Self-portrait, Prague 1890
Rousseau’s timesRousseau’s times
Art movementsArt movements
• Impressionism
• Post Impressionism
• Fauvism
• Cubism
ArtistsArtists
• Picasso
• Cézanne
• Gaugin
• Monet
• Léger
• Dufy
Fact file on RousseauFact file on Rousseau
• He took 3 months to finish a painting working 7 days a week
• He painted slowly from the top to the bottom of the canvas, filling in just one colour at a time
Portrait of the poet Apollinaire
Fact file on RousseauFact file on Rousseau
• There are over 50 shades of green in a jungle painting
• He gave violin & painting lessons and was a street musician to eke out a living
• He died in poverty and had a pauper’s grave at first
Gentle Rousseau you can hear usWe salute you Delaunay, his wife, Monsieur Queval and I Let our luggage through the gate of heaven duty-free We’ll bring you paintbrushes, colours, canvassesSo that your heavenly leisure time in the real light Is devoted to painting as when you did my portrait The face of the stars
Guillaume Apollinaire
translated RKM
Rousseau’s grave now has an epitaph by Apollinaire
Famous quotes 1Famous quotes 1
about Cézanne, 1907
“ You know, I could have finished all these pictures”
Famous quotes 2Famous quotes 2
about Picasso, 1908
“ We are the two greatest painters of this era: you in the Egyptian style and I in the modern style”