The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897 by Henri Rousseau.

Cezanne, Lowry and Landscapes Cezanne Paul Cezanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that.

Henri Julien Felix Rousseau grew up amid humble circumstances in Laval, a small town in northwestern France. His father, a metalsmith, had long-term financial difficulties, amassing enough debt to result in the seizure of the family house in 1851.

Background Henri Rousseau was born in Laval, France in 1844 in the Loire Valley into the family of a tinsmith; he was forced to work there as a young boy. (6) He attended Laval High School as a day student and then as a boarder, after his father became a debtor and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house.

In this lesson, you will explore the subject, style, and techniques involved in The Dream, a painting by Henri Rousseau. You can then test your understanding with a short quiz.

Barbara Creed, Professor of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne will tell us how these extraordinary pictures continue to shed light on the representation of sex and eroticism by drawing on theories of psychoanalysis and surrealism. Henri Rousseau's, The Dream is a beautiful, strange, and enigmatic painting. It depicts the dream of.

This lesson provides an analysis of the primitivist painter Henri Rousseau’s classic, “The Sleeping Gypsy,” and its affect on early twentieth-century art.

The Sleeping Gypsy. By: Henri Rousseau. Oils. on Canvas. Description. It has something to do with an Egyptian person. I can see a lion and a dark skinned person with his stuff next to him. He is sleeping.There are mostly dark colors with the exception of the sand the guys clothes. The media is oils on canvas. Analysis. This painting has two focal points. They are the gypsy’s face and the.

Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau. What is your first impression about the mood or feel the painting conveys? Study the painting carefully. List details from the painting together with ideas about how those details relate to each other. Notice the lighting, colors, shapes, lines, and textures. How do the details of the painting create a specific.

Inspired by Rousseau’s painting of the same name, Gerstein imagines a dream that provoked the artist to create it. It’s unfortunate that a different book title highlighting the dream conceit, rather than reiterating the painting title’s problematic use of “gypsy,” wasn’t used.

Henri was retired from his normal job, and hadn't painting very much until his middle ages when he picked it up as a hobby. He never studied art as most of the other prominent artists of this period did, but he did have a natural ability to make very naturalistic figures and an imagination to boot. The painting shown here is of a sleeping gypsy, lying asleep in a completely devoid landscape.

Henri Rousseau - Henri Rousseau - Later paintings and recognition: In 1893 Rousseau retired from the toll house to devote himself entirely to painting. Soon afterward he met Alfred Jarry, a brilliant young writer, also from Laval, whose nonconformity shocked his contemporaries. Jarry was struck by Rousseau’s unusual work and introduced the self-taught artist to the circle of intellectuals.

Cocteau said of The Sleeping Gypsy that it was not poetic painting but rather painted poetry. Henri Rousseau drew on many artistic styles including the sublime. The Sleeping Gypsy's sublime in that there's a strong sense of boundlessness in relation to the landscape. Boundlessness is a feature which Immanuel Kant said was a characteristic of.