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46          <li class="dropdown"><a href="#"><span>Henri Rousseau Masterpieces</span> <i class="bi bi-chevron-down"></i></a>
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48                <li><a href="/surprised.jsp" title="">Surprised, 1891</a></li>
49                <li><a href="/the-sleeping-gypsy.jsp" >The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897</a></li>
50                <li><a href="/the-dream.jsp" >The Dream, 1910</a></li>
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53                <li><a href="/the-snake-charmer.jsp" >The Snake Charmer, 1907</a></li>
54                <li><a href="/exotic-landscape.jsp" title="">Exotic Landscape, 19081</a></li>
55                <li><a href="/the-muse-inspires-the-poet.jsp" >The Muse Inspires the Poet, 1909</a></li>
56                <li><a href="/war.jsp">War, 1894</a></li>
57                <li><a href="/boy-on-the-rocks.jsp" >Boy on the Rocks, 1895</a></li>
58                <li><a href="/the-repast-of-the-lion.jsp" >The Repast of the Lion, 1907</a></li>
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81	<p class="top">I felt before I thought.</p>
82	<p class="second"> - Henri Rousseau</p>
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92      <h1>Henri Rousseau</h1>
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103				<p>
104				<b>Henri Rousseau</b> is most celebrated as being one of the best naive artists. He was given the nickname la Dounaier (although he never reached this position), which stemmed from a job he held from 1871 to 1893, where 
105				he worked with the Paris Customs Office. Prior to this career, he served in the army. During this time, painting was something that he did as a hobby, and in 1893, he accepted early retirement, which allowed him to focus 
106				on painting full time. This in turn allowed him to better his from, and create a name for himself in the world of art. 
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109				Although much of his work was often ridiculed, he did not waiver in the form and style in 
109which he created his art work. Henri Rousseau tried to paint following an academic manner, where he followed the traditionalist work 
110				which was created by some of the top artists in this field. Some of his influences were <i>Bougureau</i> and <i>Gerome</i>. The innocence and charm which he used to create his work, won over the admiration of the 
111				avant-garde. And, in 1908, <a href="http://www.pablopicasso.org">Pablo Picasso</a> held a banquet, to honor Henri Rousseau, and the work he had created.
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114				Today, Henri Rousseau is most well known for the jungle themes in which most of the pieces he created took place. <a href="/surprised.jsp">Surprised!</a>, is the first of these pieces, which was exhibited in the 
115				<i>National Gallery, London</i>, in 1891. Another piece, <a href="/the-dream.jsp">The Dream</a>, was exhibited in <a href="https://www.moma.org">MOMA</a>, New York, in 1910. These are two prime examples of the creativity of 
116				the work he created, and his ability to work on a larger scale, with longevity, and with the attention to detail which he paid in his art forms. Some of the inspiration for the work he created, were visits to zoos, magazines, 
117				and the time he spend in Paris. 
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120				Although Henri Rousseau was labeled under the naives art form, he also created work which many labeled as primitive, and many even classified him as a surrealist, with many of the distinct creations that he put together 
121				during his career. He was well known by surrealists, and was in fact a driving force in this movement. His ability to see beyond the eye's reach, and his ability to perceive what was not seen on paper, gave his work 
122				extreme depth, and helped him create a diverse set of paintings during his career, each with their own unique style and form. 
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125				Henri Rousseau believed that his work was done in an academic style, although he was most widely seen as a professional for his creative style, and the unique ability to take something out of the page of a magazine, and 
126				recreate it into a unique and distinct picture. He was brought into the lime light in 1908, during the banquet in which <i>Picasso</i> introduced him to the art world. Styliization, the fantastical images, and direct 
127				vision, were some of the features which the art world loved, when viewing the images which Henri Rousseau created during his career. 
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130				Rousseau was not formally trained, and only took up painting as a hobby during his career, but the self confidence which he had in himself, and the sense of entitlement he had in his work, allowed him to create amazing 
131				pieces. Most notable the jungle scenes which he worked on, and was most well known for, but he was also known for the dream like work and scenes, which he depicted in many of the later works he did in his career as well. 
132				Most of his work was not based on first hand experiences, but on places he had visited, or print ads which he had seen, and reworked a new life, and new style, to create his own distinct style with these pieces which he painted. 
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135				Many of the works which Henri Rousseau created were also extremely disproportionate, and exaggerated. One example of this, was the <a href="/boy-on-the-rocks.jsp">Boy on the Rocks</a>, which critics claim to be both funny and 
136				alarming. Viewers see the rocks as a series of mountains, which are dwarfed by a child trying to overcome this challenge. His vision, his attention to detail, and his inability to distinguish between fantasy and real life 
137				in the works which he created, gave much allure to the style, and the pieces which he painted during his career. Much of this was probably due to his lack of formal training in the art world, but also because of the fact 
138				that he had a different perception of reality, and of the work which he was producing, when he painted on a large scale canvas, which he often created most of his work on. 
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141				Like most artists, shortly following his death, Henri Rousseau became an extremely well known name in the art world, and his paintings were sought after by collectors, museums, and admirers of his work in general. Much of 
142				the work which he created, did not sell during his career, but there was a great demand which occurred shortly after his death. This not only caused an increase in the price of the pieces that were sold, but also created 
143				more buzz around his name, his legacy, and the work which he created during an extremely short career he had in the art world. 
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147				Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. " - Henri Rousseau
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151				Henri Rousseau took up art as a passion and as a hobby; yet he managed to make his way to the top, and is today known as one of the greatest naive painters to exist. His ability to see into the future, and to create 
152				surreal pieces, years before the movement came to be, required some kind of genius. This was probably one reason for his success with other artists (we know <a href="http://www.pablopicasso.org">Picasso</a>, 
153				<a href="http://www.henrimatisse.org">Henri Matisse</a>, <a href="http://www.vincentvangogh.org">Vincent van Gogh</a> and <a href="http://www.marcchagall.net">Marc Chagall</a> were among his first admirers, and Surrealists, such as 
154				<a href="http://www.joan-miro.net">Joan Miro</a> and <a href="https://www.dalipaintings.com">Salvador Dali</a>, who admired him thirty years later). But by re-introducing the values of the imaginary into the art of his period, 
155				he went beyond one of the needs of his time - and ours.                       
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