The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844 to 1910) is one of the most important naive painters without academic training. One of his most famous works is entitled "The Sleeping Gypsy" (French: La Bohémienne endormie). Clear contours are as typical of Rousseau's painting as the strong colours. The lying figure is painted "wrong" in perspective, it should tip over at any moment.
But the viewer only casually takes note of these supposed errors. The impression of an unmistakable visual language beyond any correct depiction of reality prevails. A dreamlike mood emanates from this picture, because the viewer is aware of the absolutely unrealistic picture design and yet feels drawn into a completely independent pictorial world.
The poet and contemporary of Rousseau, Guillaume Apollinaire, described the painter as primitive and his painting as naive. Both qualities are repeatedly attributed to Rousseau; Kandinsky sees the autodidact on the way to great realism.
No matter how Rousseau's work is placed in the history of art, his very own, fascinating painting style remains undeniable. The viewer recognizes a Rousseau at first glance, without any surprises, as in the painting "The Railroad Track". The picture shows a city view in winter and is characterised by clear colours and lines. The coldness of the winter day can be felt, at the same time the arrangement seems to be able to tip over into an abstract pictoriality of pure forms and colours at any time.
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.jpg "The Flamingos by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Carnival Evening by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Tropics by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Exotic Landscape by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Tropical Forest with Monkeys, 1910 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Snake Charmer, 1907 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Black Person Attacked by a Jaguar, 1910 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Jungle with Lion by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Exotic Landscape with Monkeys and a Parrot by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Banks of the Oise by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "In the Fields by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Football players by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Landscape with Peasant by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "View of the Pont de Sèvres by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Scene in Bagneux on the Outskirts of Paris by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "A Centennial of Independence by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Bad Surprise by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "By the River, c.1890 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Exotic Landscape by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Snake Charmer by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Mill by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "An Evening of Carnival by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cows by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Exotic Landscape, 1910 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman, 1895 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Portrait of Josephine, the artist")
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.jpg "The Girl with a Doll by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Jaguar Attacking a Horse, 1910 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Sketch, View of the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Jungle at the Equator by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Tropical Forest: Battling Tiger and Buffalo by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Lion, Hungry, Attacks the Antelope by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Artist Painting His Wife, 1900-05 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "War, or the Ride of Discord, 1894 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Red-Haired Man by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Sketch, View of Saint-Louis Island from Quai Henri IV by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Woman in Red in the Forest by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Walk in the Forest, 1886-90 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Banks of the Oise, 1905 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Representatives of Foreign Powers Coming to Salute the Republic as a Sign of Peace, 1907 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Bridge at Charenton, France by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Old Man Junier")
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.jpg "Tropical Forest with Monkeys, 1910 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Bouquet of Flowers with China Asters and Tokyos by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Hikers Climbing up to a Mountain Chalet by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Myself: Portrait – Landscape by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Sawmill, Outskirts of Paris by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Banks of the Seine, 1898 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Landscape, the Bridge by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Pink Candle by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Lion")
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.jpg "The Lion, Hungry, Attacks the Antelope by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Mikmaq woman, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Bievre at Gentilly by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Oak Branch by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Farm Yard, 1896-98 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Tiger Attacking a Horse and a Sleeping Black Man by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Canal by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Eve, c.1906-07 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Eiffel Tower by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Monkeys and Parrot in the Virgin Forest by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Notre Dame by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Rendezvous in the Forest, 1889 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Monkeys and Parrot in the Virgin Forest by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Exotic Landscape with Tiger and Hunters by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Portrait of Madame M by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Landscape with an Arch and Three Houses, 1907 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "View of the Bridge at Sevres and the Hills at Clamart, St. Cloud and Bellevue by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman, c.1895-97 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Fight between a Tiger and a Buffalo by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Banana Harvest by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Fisherman, after 1886 by Henri Rousseau")
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.jpg "The Pink Candle by Henri Rousseau")
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