Take a Picture '

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Take a Picture .

• Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)
• Henri Rousseau, 1891

Rosmond Milner
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First impressions count describe the painting in
ONE word
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Look for clues in the picture

• Subject
• Style
• Composition
• Colour
• Mood

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Looking at pictures visual literacy

• Subject
• Is it formal, informal, a portrait, a landscape,
  a still-life, heroic, exotic, fantastic,
  ordinary/everyday?

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Looking at pictures visual literacy

• Style
• Is it naïve, childlike, primitive, stylised,
  bold, simplified, modern, classical?

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Looking at pictures visual literacy

• Composition
• Think about perspective, depth of view, pattern,
  diagonal lines, movement, rhythm, orientation
  (portrait or landscape format)?

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Looking at pictures visual literacy

• Colour
• Are the colours bright, warm, hot, strong, bold,
  complementary colours (red/green, purple/yellow,
  blue/orange) are there strong tonal contrasts?

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Looking at pictures visual literacy

• Mood
• Is the picture atmospheric, stormy, windy, light
  and dark, scary, exciting, electric, dramatic?

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What cant we see?
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What cant we see in a reproduction?

• Size
• Texture gt brush marks, thickness of paint
• Support gt canvas, wood, paper
• If the colour reproduction is accurate

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Art detectives

• Visit these websites to find answers for the quiz
  about the painting

• www.nationalgallery.org.uk
• The National Gallery.Click on Search then scroll
  down the page to Search the Collection. Type in
  Rousseau
• www.artchive.com
• Mark Hardens database of artists.Click on the
  Mona Lisa to enter the site and on H Rousseau in
  the index on the left. View the Image List
• www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau
• The Web Museum, Paris

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Art detectives

• What was the painting first called?
• When was it made?
• Where can it be seen now?
• In what way was the painting a first for
  Rousseau?
• Which jungle inspired the painting?

• Surprise!
• 1891
• The National Gallery, London
• It was his first jungle painting
• None Rousseau claimed he served with the army
  in Mexico, but it was probably inspired by visits
  to the botanical gardens and zoo in Paris and by
  illustrated books

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• 6. When was Rousseau born and when did he die?
• 7. What was his nickname and why?
• 8. Name one of his other famous paintings?
• 9. Why is Rousseau known as a naïve artist?
• 10. Which twentieth century art movement was
  influenced by his style of painting after his
  death?

• 6. 1844 1910
• 7. Le Douanier or Douanier Rousseau because he
  had been a low-ranking Customs Officer before he
  retired
• 8. The Dream, The Sleeping Gypsy, The Football
  Players
• 9. Because he was formally untrained and painted
  in a childlike or primitive way
• 10. Surrealism

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Henri Rousseau, Le Douanier

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• Rousseaus times
• Art movements
• Impressionism
• Post Impressionism
• Fauvism
• Cubism
• Artists
• Picasso
• Cézanne
• Gaugin
• Monet
• Léger
• Dufy

Self-portrait, Prague 1890
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Fact file on Rousseau

• He took 3 months to finish a painting working 7
  days a week
• He painted slowly from the top to the bottom of
  the canvas, filling in just one colour at a time

Portrait of the poet Apollinaire
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Fact file on Rousseau

• There are over 50 shades of green in a jungle
  painting
• He gave violin painting lessons and was a
  street musician to eke out a living
• He died in poverty and had a paupers grave at
  first

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Rousseaus grave now has an epitaph by Apollinaire
Gentle Rousseau you can hear usWe salute you
Delaunay, his wife, Monsieur Queval and I Let
our luggage through the gate of heaven duty-free
Well bring you paintbrushes, colours,
canvassesSo that your heavenly leisure time in
the real light Is devoted to painting as when
you did my portrait The face of the stars
Guillaume Apollinaire translated RKM
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Famous quotes 1
You know, I could have finished all these
pictures
about Cézanne, 1907
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Famous quotes 2
We are the two greatest painters of this era
you in the Egyptian style and I in the modern
style
about Picasso, 1908
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