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 Artist:Henri Rousseau  DOB: May 21 1844 Laval, Mayenne  DOD: September 2nd 1910 Paris, France  Type of Artwork:Painting  Media: Paintbrush and paint  Style: Jungle life and various other artworks including a self portrait.  Movement: Post impressionism, Naive art, and Primitivism  Short definition of the style: Fascinating.

Henri Rousseau was born in Laval, France in the Loire Valley into the family of a tinsmith. Rousseau died in Paris, France 1910. His father was hit with debt and the seizure of their home forced them to move. He worked for a lawyer and studied law, but "attempted a small perjury and sought refuge in the army,"  serving for four years, starting in 1863. With his dad's death, Rousseau moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother. In 1868 he married Clémence Boitard, his landlord's 15 year-old daughter, with whom he had six children (only one survived).

He started painting seriously in his early forties, and by age 49 he retired from his job to work on his art full time. His inspiration came from illustrated books and the botanical gardens in Paris. He had also met soldiers, during his army service, who had survived the French expedition to Mexico and listened to their stories of the subtropical country they had encountered. Rousseau states, "When I go into the glass houses and I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream." Which becomes his inspiration for some of his art. Rousseau's influence was said to inspire other artists such as Pablo Picasso, and including Jean hugo, Leger, Beckmann and the Surrealist.

Rousseau had many critics even some from today. Modern critics claim that Rousseau's work is childish and not imaginative. Some art critics regard his art as something nice to look at but not as serious art. His ingenuousness was extreme, and he was unaware that establishment artists considered him untutored. Many observers commented that he painted like a child, but the work shows sophistication with his particular technique. His work gathered many critics but Henri Rousseau was considered phenomenal.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. In 1871, he was appointed as a collector of the octori tax on goods entering Paris. His wife died in 1888 and he married Josephine Noury in 1898. Rousseau claimed he had "no teacher other than nature". Along with his exotic scenes there was a concurrent output of smaller topographical images of the city and its suburbs.He claimed to have invented a new genre of portrait landscape, which he achieved by starting a painting with a view such as a favourite part of the city, and then depicting a person in the foreground.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Overall Rousseau became famous for his paintings. Through his life he had to face ridicule and strive past that. He became successful through the doubt and death of all his children except one. Rousseau is now honored in many countries all around the world. Rousseau art is displayed all around the world and inspiring new artists and artists to come.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">http://www.cord.edu/faculty/andersod/rousseau_gypsy.jpg <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> It's Rousseau's famous gypsy in the desert <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Henri_Rousseau_-_Self-portrait_of_the_Artist_with_a_Lamp.jpg <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Self portrait <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 23px;">