Explore the Enchanted World of Henri Rousseau: An Artistic Odyssey Through the Jungle of Imagination 

You are very right, sometimes too much training can lead to sterility.

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Wow, thank you!

I agree.

My pleasure 😊 Glad you like my videos. Cheers Paul

Yes, it is sad when artists die penniless.

This is probably one of the truest things anyone has said about Henri Rousseau tbh, I like to think of him as someone like Daniel Johnston or Ed Wood. He had an amazing vision of the world and clearly had something to say, but no one bothered to understand until after he died.

@@Ben_Rothenburg_ Yes and hearing how Picasso treated him when is was young is shameful and doesnt say much for Picasso.

I think you may have a point.

He was a great artist. Cheers

Hi Lynn, glad you enjoyed my tutorial. Rousseau's work is certainly brilliant. Cheers

I think you are right. Picasso once said, 'It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.'

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Ut does have that quality about it. Cheers

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Really pleased you liked the video, I have more on my channel if you haven't already viewed them. Greetings from England. Cheers Paul

Glad you enjoyed it!

Wonderful! Cheers

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Thank you, glad you like the videos. if you have the chance please share my channel with your friends. Thanks Paul

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People have different opinions, just got to accept that. Thanks for your comment. Cheers Paul

I agree

Some people just cannot appreciate beauty. These people are like the judge of The Salon of Paris in the last part of the 1800’s who refused art that is loved all over the world today.

i most certainly will not 'like' or 'subscribe'

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Glad you enjoyed the video. Good luck with your art.

Many thanks. I shall continue to produce these videos, I have one coming out soon on Georgia O'Keeffe. Please subscribe and tell your friends about my channel. Cheers Paul

Artist in School I would also share with my friends but I have none

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That's wonderful, please tell your friends about it, cheers Paul

Glad you enjoyed it

Glad you like my work. Rousseau is a fascinating character and his work is wonderful.

Art History School We are lucky we can take painting lessons online, is a big help. Loved how he put himself in the Cart. And that Tiger. 🤔😘

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Glad you enjoyed it. I must admit to having a soft spot for Rousseau.

I would agree

@@ArtHistorySchool oh thanks😀 sorry I meant no offense on dear Monet. For sure he was talented and I even loved his work at a time as I lived in USA and his work on posters are everywhere...it is just personally I felt they overrate him in particular there. As for borrowing money from friends, it would make sense it was for food or rent. Anyway I had no idea about that, and when you said he liked expensive coats. Well that turned me off. Also read elsewhere he was very jealous of other good artists and would put them down publicly. But I think they were all competitive. Its human nature.🙂have great day

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He was a fabulous painter

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Wow, thank you!

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You are right, Rousseau wasn't a technically good artist, but he had this unique way of conveying emotion and feeling which is what makes him a great artist.

Glad you enjoyed it and that it had a nice calming influence. Cheers

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He was a very naive character, no training, yet produced many great paintings. Hope for all of us.

That's great. I hope you get a really high mark for your homework. Cheers Paul

me to i am in quarintine

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Glad it was helpful!

I think you are right, I have always liked his idiosyncrasies, wonderful.

Naive is a term often used in art for self-taught artists who do not adhere to the usual visual 'rules'. It is not a reflection the artist's creativity which in Rousseau's case was great.

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He was very young at the time.

That's great. I hope you do really well with your homework.

That's brilliant, thanks for the sub too.

He certainly was. Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers

Cheers, please subscribe if you haven't already. Thanks Paul

Artist in School I did, am studying Henri Rousseau at school

That's great, he is an interesting artist.

That's great

Thank you so much! I hope your kid's art teacher starts to inspire them soon.

Glad you liked it. Thank you

He was great

Sometimes there is a freshness about the work of those who haven't been through the art college system.

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I think today people appreciate that great art does not need to be 'photographic'

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You have my permission to use the video provided you put the following text in the description. 'The video of Henri Rousseau is kindly provided by Paul Priestley: ru-vid.com ' Thanks Paul Priestley

Que gran combinación de cualidades

Please do a comment because I'm a big fan of you (not the artist😒)

Hi Jade, I hope you have learnt lots about Henri Rousseau and thanks for being a fan. Cheers

Very true

Thank you for your kind comments. It's nice to know my efforts are appreciated. Cheers Paul

He does sound a great guy

Yeah, I think he did have charm.

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Hope you did well with your art project. Cheers Paul

The incident where Picasso presented Rousseau with a large hand painted cardboard medal in front of a large gathering of his friends is well documented. Maybe, you do not think that a young artist doing that to a rather gullible artist almost 40 years his senior wasn't making fun of him? It is true Picasso did own a number of Rousseau paintings because he admired his naivety in the sense that Rousseau was untrained and not restricted by an academic art education that Picasso had experienced. Picasso once said, 'I spent a life time learning to paint like a child.' Young children draw without using rulers, erasers and give no consideration to perspective, colour, form, tone, composition, structure etc., that artists tend to do. It was the freedom and spirit that young children adopt in their drawings that Picasso admired. It was that same spirit and freedom he saw in Rousseau's work. That is not to denigrate Rousseau it's just a fact. My videos are aimed at teenagers of all ages. I think that American's might find the implication of your first remark disingenuous.

​@@ArtHistorySchool I am surprised that people coming from the country which believe that brown cows give chocolate milk, would understand the meaning of the word disingenuous at all. But more seriously, my knowledge of Picasso and Rousseau and their friendship is not based on what has been written about them by people who spent their life studying them but didn't know them, but by people who knew them intimately such as Fernande Olivier who was a very good friend of my great grand mother, and later on my grand mother, and who reported that Picasso adored Rousseau and considered him as a genius. The cardboard medal was never meant to ridicule Rousseau, Picasso, would never lower himself to that. That wasn't this kind of person at all. When he finished painting "Guernica" and was asked about it,he said that he owed it all to Rousseau's "War" painting and that for many years he had tried to reproduce this painting and wished that by the time he died he would capable to paint like Rousseau. The sleeping Gypsy is also considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, and not a single painter in the world sees it as anything but one of the most important painting in history. Without Rousseau it is safe to say that Picasso, Dali Bunuel, Chirico wouldn't have produced many of their work and they all mentioned how important Rousseau was and nobody made fool of him. It is in 1908 , e years before Rousseau's death that Picasso organizes this large party to honor Rousseau, not to ridicule him. Banquet to which my great grand mother and grand mother's friend Fernande took part, as she was then living with Picasso and since the party was thrown in Picasso's own atelier. Party during which the great Poet Guillaume Apollinaire (the same who will write on Rousseau's grave, the epitaph that later on the Romanian sculptor Brancusi and the Chilean Painter Zarate will carve in the stone", also wrote a poem in honor of Rousseau which he recited that night in his honor. "Tu te souviens, Rousseau, du paysage astèque, Des forêts où poussaient la mangue et l’ananas, Des singes répandant tout le sang des pastèques Et du blond empereur qu’on fusilla là-bas. Les tableaux que tu peins, tu les vis au Mexique, Un soleil rouge ornait le front des bananiers, Et valeureux soldat, tu troquas ta tunique, Contre le dolman bleu des braves douaniers. Le malheur s’acharna sur ta progéniture Tu perdis tes enfants et tes femmes aussi Et te remarias avecque la peinture Pour faire tes tableaux, enfants de ton esprit. Nous sommes réunis pour célébrer ta gloire, Ces vins qu’en ton honneur nous verse Picasso, Buvons-les donc, puisque c’est l’heure de les boire En criant tous en chœur : « Vive ! vive Rousseau ! » Ô peintre glorieux de l’alme République Ton nom est le drapeau des fiers Indépendants Et dans le marbre blanc, issu du Pentélique, On sculptera ta face, orgueil de notre temps. Or sus ! que l’on se lève et qu’on choque les verres Et que renaisse ici la française gaîté ; Arrière noirs soucis, fuyez ô fronts sévères, Je bois à mon Rousseau, je bois à sa santé ! " Trust me, if you can read french you will know that these are NOT the words of someone who wants to ridicule Rousseau. And after his death, painters like Delauney and Kandinsky (who will declare that Rousseau was the trailblazer who created the path to new possibilities of simplicity.) will draw inspiration from Rousseau, and Alfred Barr whom i am sure you are familiar with, will explain that Rousseau, just like Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cezanne, Seurat, are at the origin of the abstract revolution. which gave birth to Cubism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Neo Plasticism, Purism, Abstract Dadaism, Abstract Surrealism and even modern architecture. If you believe that Picasso or Rousseau's friends would ever have made a fool of him, then you should reconsider your knowledge of Rousseau. Because this is as inaccurate as thinking that brown cows give chocolate.

As I said Picasso did admire the work of Rousseau because he saw his naivety opening up a new way of approaching art, therefore Picasso saw him as important. As regards the incident with the Picasso banquet I take your word about how your distant relations saw and interpreted this and consequently your view of it. I have based my view on various sources including Roger Shattuck where he says, ' Picasso organized the banquet and decided to hold it in his own studio in the Bateau-Lavoir. The gathering has been interpreted by some as a lampooning of Rousseau, as a magnificent farce organized for everyone's enjoyment at Rousseau's expense. Delaunay refused to attend for that reason.' As Delaunay refused to take part in the event it seems clear that the lampooning must have been common knowledge. The 27 year old Picasso was the organiser of the banquet. If your interpretation is correct it seems that the original intention to ridicule by some may have developed in a different way as the evening progressed. There are different views on this. Whilst your point that Rousseau along with Van Gogh and the other Post Impressionists developed work which led to 'Fauvism, Futurism, Cubism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Neo Plasticism, Purism, Abstract Dadaism, Abstract Surrealism and even modern architecture' is valid. To imply that Rousseau had a direct influence on Tatlin, Malevitch, Goncharova,Mondrian, Van Doesburg, De Chirico, etc, etc, etc. really is a step too far.

@@ArtHistorySchool Robert Shattuck wasn't at the banquet, he was born 25 years after the banquet so, i'll take Fernande's words over his. Delauney was at the banquet, briefly but he was there toward the end, it is all in Fernande's journal. I never wrote that Rousseau had a direct influence on Tatlin, Malevitch, Goncharova,Mondrian, Van Doesburg, etc, etc, etc. But yes he did influence Chirico, by Chirico's own words.

very true

Yes I have

I'm sure it was, but it shows that anything is possible in painting.

True

He is on my list, which is getting very long. Cheers

He was quite young at the time, but I know what you mean.

I think it's because he wasn't trained as an artist, therefore had a unique approach to painting.

What is history..... I wonder.🤔

.. because there's something about the paintings that isn't accidental. The colour choices alone, and the compositions, they are curiously good (as well as occasionally bad). For a man, who by all practical accounts seems to been a "blagger", maybe it's just unquestioned self-belief. Andy Warhol couldn't have existed without characters like Rousseau.

I don't think so

Obviously, you have a brilliant teacher.

Amazing what was covered in 10 minutes. It is impossible to cover all his works (major or not) in the time available. I'm sorry you are disappointed.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the presentation

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