Henri Rousseau: 110+ Post-impressionist Paintings - Post-impressionism
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HENRI ROUSSEAU Art Book contains 110+ Reproductions of portraits, landscapes and genre scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).BORN: May 21, 1844 in Laval, Mayenne, France.DIED: September 2, 1910 in Paris, France.MOVEMENT: Post-Impressionism, PrimitivismINTERESTING FACTS:§ Rousseau worked as a tax collector most of his life and was self-taught as a painter. In 1893, he retired from his job as a tax collector to paint full time.§ In 1886, Rousseau exhibited some of his first paintings at the Salon de Indépendants.§ In 1894, Rousseau exhibited The War at the Salon de Indépendants. It was this work that led to him being recognized as a serious painter and being praised by the avant-garde review Le Mercure de France.§ In 1905, Rousseau was invited to exhibit at the Salon d’Automne along side Matisse and Derain.§ In 1908, Picasso held a banquet in his studio for Rousseau. He discovered Rousseau’s work while buying canvases that could be painted over.NOTABLE WORKS:Sleeping Gypsy, The Dream, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope and A Carnival Evening.
Reviews
A very good series of reproductions covering a large selection of Rousseau's paintings, reproduced in good colour.There is a list of the titles and dates of all the actual reproductions, at the beginning of the book, followed by pages of thumbnails, one for each included print.However, each title does not give a page number for the reproduction it refers to; in fact there are no page numbers in the entire book. When each title, or thumbnail, is clicked on, one is taken directly to the respective reproduction. This is a very nice feature when you know the title of the reproduction that you wish to view. However, it is more cumbersome when searching through the 110+ very small thumbnails, for a reproduction that you want to view, but whose title is unknown or has been forgotten.The greatest problem is when browsing the reproductions inside the book, as each reproduction 'stands by itself', without title, date or any other manner of identifying any particular reproduction. So that you are lost if you need to know the title of a particular work. It is far too problematical to have to count through up to 110+ thumbnails, and then to repeat the count through the same number of titles in alphabetically consecutive order, in order to discover the title of the thumbnail that is being viewed: assuming you have managed to identify that correct thumbnail from the reproduction that you were originally viewing in the first place, and now wish to identify.This is all a little convoluted and would have been perfect, and therefore deserving of 5 stars, if primarily, the title and date of each work was printed below each reproduction. Any additional information, such as size, medium, location of original artwork, would also not be amiss, though not strictly necessary as that can always be hunted down on the net, once armed with the title and date.Otherwise a very good series of art books from the Ankele's, and very reasonably priced, but the above criticism is applicable to the 18 different books of their's that I have bought; apart from the title 'Johannes Vermeer', which has the title and date below each painting, and is also preceded by a page with other relevant information regarding that work. It would be perfect if every one of their books were laid out in this same manner, for ease of viewing. Perhaps it is due to the fact that there are only 40 reproductions in that book?