Henri Rousseau, 1901 - Unpleasant Surprise (Bad surprise) - fine art print

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Self-taught painter Henri Rousseau returned frequently to the theme of conflict in the natural world. His large-scale 'jungle paintings' are rife with violent struggles between wild animals—lions, tigers, horses—set in plush, exotic landscapes. Here, a hunter rescues a nude bather from a sharp-clawed bear that seems to emerge from the rocks below. The curvy figure stands in a gesture of calm surrender, revealing dirty palms, while the man fires his gun at the beast. Rousseau's painting reads at first like a classic 'damsel in distress' scene in the vein of Ingres's Roger Freeing Angelica. And yet the closer one looks, the stranger the picture becomes, and the harder the narrative is to decipher. Why does the woman not seem particularly frightened? Why is the hunter rendered on such a small scale? Perhaps Rousseau intended this as a fantasy of primordial innocence in conflict with modern technology.

Unpleasant Surprise (Bad surprise) was by the primitivist artist Henri Rousseau. The over 110 years old original version measures the size Overall: 76 5/8 x 51 1/8 in (194,6 x 129,9 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the French painter as the technique for the masterpiece. Today, the artpiece belongs to the digital art collection of Barnes Foundation. The masterpiece, which is in the public domain is being provided with courtesy of Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Creditline of the artwork: . In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with an aspect ratio of 2 : 3, which means that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The painter Henri Rousseau was a European artist from France, whose art style can be classified as Naive Art Primitivism. The Primitivist artist lived for 66 years, born in 1844 in Laval, Pays de la Loire, France and passed away in 1910 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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