" (1995) This literal table cloth contains "entertaining sketches that are those that translated the stains of spilled win or coffee into instant images, often of exotic-looking animals, with color and contrast added by anything within reach - dampened cigarette ash and coffee beans, dabs of mustard, sauce lipstick, ink and even tomato ketchup." (Riding, 1995)
II. ROUSSEAU
The work of King (2006) relates in the work entitled: "Self-Taught in Paris" that Rousseau was a "self-taught painter" and that this artist "did not sojourn beyond the Parisian zoos and gardens to concoct his unique fauna and flora..." (King, 2006) King states that the "single-most striking aspect of Henri Rousseau's sometimes strange and even implausible oeuvre is that this life-long pauper who had to wait forty years to begin painting and endured wide ridicule...remained unswervingly self-confident, never doubting he'd land a canvas in the Louvre." (2006)
Rousseau it seems painted "with his fee with his eyes closed." (King, 2006) Rousseau was born in 1844 in the Loire...
Rousseau was self-taught in music and "spent his first four decades as a soldier, street musician, and minor civil servant." (King, 2006) Rousseau "inspiring late bloomers everywhere...begin painting only after 40 and then within the confines of his 70-hour workweek as gabelou, a lowly municipal toll-taker." (King, 2006)
The National Gallery of Art work entitled: "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" states that Rousseau "created fantastic worlds filled with odd juxtapositions..." (2008) Rousseau further "freely mixed flora so that the horticultural varieties can no longer be precisely identified." (National Gallery of Art, 2008)
Bibliography
Riding, Alan (1994) Paris Tablecloth Sketches from a Golden Age of Art. 29 Mar 1995. The New York Times.
Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris (2008) National Gallery of Art publication. Washington D.C. 2008.
King, Kimberly (2006) Self-Taught in Paris. National Gallery of Art 15 Oct 2006.
Vaananen, Mirena (2002) the Gold Age of Finnish Art.…
