Henri Rousseau, 1905 - Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest (Woman Walking in an exotic forest) - fine art print

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Here Henri Rousseau takes a seemingly ordinary subject—a women out for a stroll in the woods—and makes it strange. Most startling is perhaps the scale of the solitary figure, who stands dwarfed by oversize plants and invented purple flowers. Giant leaves, each the size of her torso, eclipse part of her face, while oranges almost twice the size of her head dangle from trees high above. Wearing a hat and a long pink dress cinched at the waist, the woman appears better suited for a manicured Parisian park. She is clearly out of her element, to an absurd degree, and this is underlined by the fact that there is no clear path on which she might continue.Throughout his career Rousseau produced many pictures with unexpected juxtapositions, such as Carnival Evening, 1886 (Philadelphia Museum of Art), which shows a clown and a female companion in a moonlit forest. Here, however, the theme of incongruity receives a distinctly tropical setting. In 1904 Rousseau had just returned to a sustained focus on jungle landscapes after a thirteen-year hiatus from the subject. Gazing at the viewer with a look of vague surprise, the woman recalls the startled animals peering out from the artist's jungle pictures, as in Monkeys and Parrot in the Virgin Forest (BF397). But while in those works the monkeys' bewildered expressions convey the sense that the viewer has encroached upon their territory, here the woman's appearance only adds to the mystery, and the viewer is left to wonder why she is wandering through this overgrown landscape. Stylistically, the canvas is painted with the utmost precision: each individual leaf, each blade of grass, has its own fixed outline, a clarity that heightens the contrast with the obscured meaning of the scene. Martha Lucy, The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks (New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012), 199-200.

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Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest (Woman Walking in an exotic forest) is a piece of art painted by Henri Rousseau in 1905. The version of the painting measures the size Overall: 39 3/8 x 31 3/4 in (100 x 80,6 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the French artist as the technique for the work of art. This piece of art can be viewed in in the Barnes Foundation's digital collection, which home to one of the world's greatest collections of impressionist, post-impressionist and early modernist paintings. The modern art work of art, which is in the public domain is supplied with courtesy of Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The creditline of the artpiece is: . On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Henri Rousseau was a painter, whose art style can mainly be classified as Naive Art Primitivism. The artist was born in 1844 in Laval, Pays de la Loire, France and passed away at the age of 66 in the year 1910 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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