The Barnes Foundation presents an expansive, enchanting survey that highlights the artist’s magic and sophistication alike.
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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’ ...
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 ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Known for his strange jungle scenes and dreamscapes, Henri Rousseau was a self-taught ...
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 ...
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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