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.

The artwork named Unpleasant Surprise (Bad surprise) was painted by Henri Rousseau. The artpiece measures the size: Overall: 76 5/8 x 51 1/8 in (194,6 x 129,9 cm) and was painted with the techinque oil on canvas. This artwork is included in the Barnes Foundation's collection - the museum home to one of the world's greatest collections of impressionist, post-impressionist and early modernist paintings. With courtesy of: Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (licensed - public domain).Creditline of the artwork: . Furthermore, alignment is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width. Henri Rousseau was a male painter from France, whose art style was mainly Naive Art Primitivism. The European painter was born in 1844 in Laval, Pays de la Loire, France and died at the age of 66 in the year 1910 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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