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 ...
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Meet Henri Rousseau, the Untrained Artist Who Wouldn't Quit Painting—Despite the Ridicule He Received From Critics
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’ ...
Lions, and tigers, and bare women. These are some of the figures in the iconic jungle pictures by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), a self-taught French artist who strove to realize financial and critical ...
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 ...
Looking at the vibrant and surreal Tiger in a Tropical Storm, it's easy to get lost in its visual tale of a dangerous night in a lush and lively jungle. Amazingly, the story behind Henri Rousseau's ...
The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked for his clumsy compositions and awkward perspectives. But if he had been trained, modern art as we know it might never have happened, writes Alastair ...
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