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The Dream. The Dream ( French: Le Rêve; occasionally also known as Le Songe or Rêve exotique) is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme. His last completed work, it was first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 18 March to 1 May 1910, a few months ...
Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909, Museum of Modern Art.One of the cornerstones of 20th-century modern art.. 20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art.
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau ( French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒyljɛ̃ feliks ʁuso]; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) [1] was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. [2] [3] He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. [1]
The Museum of Modern Art ... The Dream, 1910; Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy; ... One of the highlights of the collection is the Mies van der Rohe Archive. ...
Symbolism. Signature. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ( French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ pyvi də ʃavan]; 14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". [1] He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced ...
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife is the most famous image in Kinoe no Komatsu, published in three volumes from 1814. The book is a work of shunga ( erotic art) within the ukiyo-e genre. [1] The image depicts a woman, evidently an ama (a shell diver), enveloped in the limbs of two octopuses. The larger of the two mollusks performs cunnilingus ...
Art Institute of Chicago. At the Moulin Rouge ( French: Au Moulin Rouge) is an oil -on- canvas painting by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was painted between 1892 and 1895. Included in the background is a self-portrait of the artist in profile. It is one of a number of works by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret ...
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