Catalogue en anglais publié à l'occasion de l'exposition Henri Rousseau présenté à la fondation Beyeler du 7 février au 9 mai 2010.
Cent ans après la mort du célèbre Douanier Rousseau la Fondation Beyeler expose une quarantaine de toiles du peintre français et revisite profondément son ?uvre souvent et indûment réduite à l'art naïf, et qui a pourtant influencé les cubistes comme les surréalistes.
If Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) counts among the best loved of the early Modernists, then it is not least on account of his spectacular jungle paintings. A self-taught artist who after serving in the army was employed as a toll officer, Rousseau did not commit himself to a career as a painter until after the death of his first wife, Clémence. While some of his contemporaries were full of admiration for his seemingly naive works, others were merely scornful: Few artists were more ridiculed during their lifetime than the Douanier, and few men faced more calmly the derision and the indignity that were his lot, wrote Guillaume Apollinaire of Rousseau.
This monograph to mark the centenary of Rousseau's death features essays by Philippe Büttner, Christopher Green, Franz Hohler, and Daniel Kramer. About forty major works are showcased and the entire oeuvre reviewed. The main focus is on Rousseau's fascination with the contrast between the everyday and the exotic, the tame and the wild, as rendered in his own inimitable brand of magical realism. The juxtaposition of works in formal and thematic terms sheds new light on Rousseau, enabling us to reach beyond the cliché of the naive Douanier and to discover in him one of the pioneers of Modernism.
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