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The Dream by Henri Rousseau
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Henri Rousseau (1844- )
an outsider artist
spoke to the generation of the
died
1910 The Dream
strange and painting
a dream of a woman with whom Rousseau had had a relationship
naked, she reclines on a red couch, her arm outstretched in a manner
she is in a tropical jungle
a musician playing the flute is in the foliage
in this painting, we find beauty that is indisputable, a Louis sofa lost in the forest
eroticism
the painting evokes feelings of fertility, , and desire
the plants are lush and the animals and beautiful
it's not conventionally sexual but it is gently
the erotic concerns the aesthetic of sexual desire
ripe fruit, the threat of , and the suggestion of hidden depths, all of these combine to create an erotically charged poetic appeal
Rousseau wrote a poem to explain the painting and the odd of objects
original poem:
Yadwigha dans un beau rêve
S'étant endormie
Entendait les sons d'une musette
Dont jouait un charmeur bien pensant.
Pendant que la lune reflète
Sur les fleurs, les arbres ,
Les fauves serpents prêtent l'oreille
Aux airs gais de l'instrument.
the poem speaks of a woman , but in the painting, the women is not asleep
we enter her dream directly
we see she is in her own dream
"he was consumed by the color, the moon, and the lilies"
"his eyes were so possessed by the glowing red of the couch on which Yadwigha was regally reclined under the moon in the dark jungle among those over-sized "
the painting has many questions with few answers
why is Yadwigha having such a strange dream
what does the dream mean
why does she imagine herself
why does she place herself in an exotic jungle
why are the animals so companiable, even the lions and serpants
who is the hidden flute player
dreams in paintings
artists often use their dreams and inner worlds as an inspiration for their art
in the fin-de-siècle era, the dream took on new meaning particularly because of the ideas of Sigmund Freud and the avant garde artists
Edvard (1863-1944)
painted the dark side of the dream in his famous work of 1893, The Scream
explores a sense of and inner terror
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
Italian artist and writer
founded the scuola art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists
set his paintings in strange dreamscapes which resisted interpretation
1900 Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
profound influence on the surrealists in the 's
everything we will return
perhaps Rousseau's painting was inspired by Freud's couch
she is on a red couch in an place where the familiar is rendered unfamiliar
topics of dreams, sexuality and desires were common in the 20th century
the era of
Eve without Adam theme
painting: Eve
Eve stands naked in a jungle
holds out her hand out to a serpent
instead of apples
also a sense of harmony in nature
Rousseau's Dream
Yadwigha is like Eve in a lush, entangled jungle
jungle suggests the unconscious mind of the dreamer
many animals
an almost hidden by foliage
the piper who has tamed the wild beasts of the jungle
her outreached arm reminds us Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
but here a woman reaches out her hand and creates a tropical forest with life
she is the original which brings forth life
her naked form draws the eye not so much because she is objectified but she is the source of creativity
there is no sense that Yadwigha is performing for a male
she is self-assured, and in harmony with life
her body is erotic, rounded, , but not sexualized in a gratuitous manner
it's a waking dream, all characters have the eyes wide
painting is captivating
strange symmetry to it shapes and forms
at first the jungle seems impenetrable
the jungle seems to from within
the of the serpent's body rhymes visually with the curve of her leg
her rounded breast echoes the roundness of the full
the wide-eyes looking of the lions looking out at the viewer suggest they are under the of the piper
perhaps the black flute player represents the servant who often accompanied the female nude of classical painting
but the flute player is an &active& person, and less of a servant
some saw Rousseau as a painter
he saw himself as a
pays little attention to photographic likeness, perspective and depth
created meaning through intricately designed planes of color and distortions of scale
he uses flattened space
an absence of illusionist
his work was by conventional art critics
he found himself increasingly on the side of the avant garde
mixed with avant garde artists such as
Picasso knew he was a to new approaches of art
in his focus on , he is certainly a forerunner to the surrealist movement
surrealists were fascinated with , desire and repression
for surrealists, life was a mystery
humans imposed order where there was none
Rousseau painted many paintings in which and humans live in harmony
a regular visitor to the Jardin de
never left Paris
unusual juxtaposing of objects
Rousseau's works were often seen as the repository of dreams and desires
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Spelling Corrections:
lillies ⇒ lilies
inpenetrable ⇒ impenetrable
transfered ⇒ transferred
absense ⇒ absence