Henri Rousseaus Jungles

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Henri Rousseaus Jungles
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• "Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature
  and to paint what I see."

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• Rousseau did not begin to paint until he was
  40 years old.
• Apes in the Orange Grove, 1910

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• Rousseau was known as a Primitive artist because
  he was not taught in any art school.

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• Many other artists and critics were unkind about
  his works and he was not recognized as a great
  artist until late in his life.

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• Because he spent so much time on each painting,
  he did not make a lot of them.

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• Rousseau became famous for his jungle paintings,
  but he never saw a jungle. He never even left
  France. He got his ideas from pictures and
  drawings in books.

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