Question 1-Henri Rousseau:
Idea/Event:You should consider his life, time and place he lived, world events, culture and lifestyle.
Effect/Influence/Impact:What was the effect/influence/impact?
Example to use to support your idea What evidence do we see of this in his Artworks - name and the visual characteristic
Job – Toll collector
Boring, mundane, repetitive, dull-escape into a better place
Dreamlike,Fantasy,Exciting/ exotic, like a need to escape shown in his artworks
Where he lived-unable to travel
This impacted him socially and limited his outer contact for a short period of time during his life
His artwork showed his longing and need to belong and fit in very well.
His education- not an artist education.
Caused general criticism of …show more content…
He attended the local high school in Laval as a normal day pupil, later becoming a border when his father became a debtor (someone in debt of money) and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He performed averagely in most studies, achieve high awards in Art and Music.
When he finished high school, he began work for a lawyer, whilst studying law, but eventual left and joined the French Army, where he served for four years, starting in 1863 and ending in 1867. After his father's untimely demise, Rousseau left the army and moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. This later earned him the name Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his promotion to a tax and toll collector. This helped him to have a more sophisticated education than his high school and art career and gave him a suitable income, before resigning to become an official, full-time painter however without training he had a very unique painting style which is said to have inspired several art periods and phases within and after his
Idea/Event:You should consider his life, time and place he lived, world events, culture and lifestyle.
Effect/Influence/Impact:What was the effect/influence/impact?
Example to use to support your idea What evidence do we see of this in his Artworks - name and the visual characteristic
Job – Toll collector
Boring, mundane, repetitive, dull-escape into a better place
Dreamlike,Fantasy,Exciting/ exotic, like a need to escape shown in his artworks
Where he lived-unable to travel
This impacted him socially and limited his outer contact for a short period of time during his life
His artwork showed his longing and need to belong and fit in very well.
His education- not an artist education.
Caused general criticism of …show more content…
He attended the local high school in Laval as a normal day pupil, later becoming a border when his father became a debtor (someone in debt of money) and his parents had to leave the town upon the seizure of their house. He performed averagely in most studies, achieve high awards in Art and Music.
When he finished high school, he began work for a lawyer, whilst studying law, but eventual left and joined the French Army, where he served for four years, starting in 1863 and ending in 1867. After his father's untimely demise, Rousseau left the army and moved to Paris in 1868 to support his widowed mother as a government employee. This later earned him the name Le Douanier (the customs officer) after his promotion to a tax and toll collector. This helped him to have a more sophisticated education than his high school and art career and gave him a suitable income, before resigning to become an official, full-time painter however without training he had a very unique painting style which is said to have inspired several art periods and phases within and after his