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1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 min. 10 sec.) ; 157330191 bytes |
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Henri Rousseau was a self-taught Sunday painter who began intensive painting when he was 40 years old. During his time he was belittled and even today some art critics regard his art as purely aesthetic. The Leitmotiv of Rousseau's paintings are scenes of the jungle and wild animals like tigers, monkeys or buffalos. Towards the end of his life, his painting style showed no substantial changes. However, it had developed - into depicting imaginative, unrealistic worlds. The surrealist movement would later consider Rousseau as one of their forerunners. (From France, in English) |
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Broadcast 2009-12-05 at 15:55:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Painters -- Biography.
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Painting, French.
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Primitivism in art -- Themes, motives.
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Rousseau, Henri, 1844-1910.
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France.
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Streaming video
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Bonan, Jean-Denis, director
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Hudson, Peter, cast
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Rousseau, Henri, contributor
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