Surprised Tiger

Henri Rousseau

Surprised Tiger

1891

Henri Rousseau is well known for drawing a lot of jungle scenes, even though apparently he had never visited any tropical places himself. A lot of his work was thought to be ‘flat, seemingly childish style was disparaged by many critics’ (Wikipedia, 2012) and it does seem to have completely different qualities about it, being a bit flat rather than realistic. But his works have a lot of interesting shapes of environment and have a really creative way of expressing these natural elements which makes them personally appealing to me. A lot of his shapes of exotic leaves were used in my work because of that. Also another thing which I liked about Rousseau’s works is that there are a lot of different bright colors and shades. Obviously some of the coloring schemes I used in my paintings too. He is quiet a genius i have to admit, and a lot of his other works always have some new and interesting environments in them that can always be inspiring

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Wikipedia, 2012, Criticisim and Recognision, [online] accessed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Rousseau accessed at: 07/11/2012