Always more attracted to buildings, even on canvases... I can't help it.

Musée de l'Orangerie, décembre 2023

Intoxication alimentaire : moquons-nous du douanier Rousseau !

Intoxication alimentaire : moquons-nous du douanier Rousseau ! https://infoscoop.fr/wp-content/uploads/intoxication-alimentaire-moquons-nous-du-douanier-rousseau-2766.webp Morilles ou champignons toxiques ? Le reportage TV sur France 2 suscite une confusion mortelle et une intoxication alimentaire. #intoxicationalimentaire #lavaged'estomac #douanierrousseau #morilles #champignonstoxiques #reportagefrance2 #champignonsmortels #confusiondanger #mourirderire #champignonstueursderungis #intox #lavagedestomac #purgedelampoulerectale #gyromitres #rungis #france2 #intoxication https://is.gd/rgvlbV

HOMAGE TO THE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU

x Steep tracts of dry earth occasionally perplexed by roots Proceed up the aisles of perpendicular cathedrals. Bundled pillars of bamboo admit onto chapels of The unkempt wild banana, larger than a mammoth by Comparison to its pip-less and domesticated Cousins. Blanched husks, both Saxon and Norman, Vie with massive leaves for light’s attention. Greenly broken leaves get repaired…

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Portrait: Christina the Queen.

Portrait: Christina the Queen.

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Hommage au Douanier (Rousseau). 1980

Photo: Edouard Boubat

2 septembre 1910 : mort du peintre Henri Rousseau dit « le Douanier » ➽ https://bit.ly/3uDVRXD Cas presque unique dans l’histoire des arts, un employé d’octroi commence à peindre vers la quarantaine et retrouve d’instinct les vérités que des artistes plus conscients n’atteindront jamais, sa vocation s’avérant plus forte que son milieu, la haine, les événements et la misère

People usually associate creativity with works of art, but what are works of art alongside the creative energy displayed by everyone a thousand times a day: seething unsatisfied desires, daydreams in search of a foothold in reality, feelings at once confused and luminously clear, ideas and gestures presaging nameless upheavals. All this energy, of course, is relegated to anonymity and deprived of adequate means of expression, imprisoned by survival and obliged to find outlets by sacrificing its qualitative richness and conforming to the spectacle's categories. Think of Cheval's palace, the Watts Towers, Fourier's inspired system, or the pictorial universe of Douanier Rousseau. Even more to the point, consider the incredible diversity of anyone's dreams - landscapes the brilliance of whose colors qualitatively surpass the finest canvases of a Van Gogh. Every individual is constantly building an ideal world within themselves, even as their external motions bend to the requirements of soulless routine.

Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967)

Édouard Boubat, Hommage au Douanier Rousseau, Paris, 1980

Henri ‘Le Douanier’ Rousseau (French, 1844-1910) at work on his last completed painting - Le Rêve (The Dream), 1910

Henri Rousseau (French, 1844-1910)  - Le Rêve (The Dream) - 1910

“The woman asleep on the couch is dreaming she has been transported into the forest, listening to the sounds from the instrument of the enchanter.” -  Rousseau

HOMAGE TO THE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU

Steep tracts of dry earth occasionally perplexed by roots Proceed up the aisles of perpendicular cathedrals. Bundled pillars of bamboo admit onto chapels of The unkempt wild banana, larger than a mammoth by Comparison to its pip-less and domesticated Cousins. Blanched husks, both Saxon and Norman, Vie with massive leaves for light’s attention. Greenly broken leaves get repaired here With…

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Henri Rousseau dit Le Douanier Rousseau (1844-1910)

Horse attacked by two tigers

Oil on canvas; signed lower left

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Henri 'Le Douanier' Rousseau (1844-1910) Les Flamants (1910) oil on canvas 113.8 x 162 cm

 It is obvious that abstract systems of exploitation and domination are human creations, brought into being and refined through the diversion or co-optation of creativity. The only forms of creativity that authority can deal with, or wished to deal with, are those which the spectacle can recuperate. But what people do officially is nothing compared with what they do in secret. People usually associate creativity with works of art, but what are works of art alongside the creative energy displayed by everyone a thousand times a day: seething unsatisfied desires, daydreams in search of a foothold in reality, feelings at once confused and luminously clear, ideas and gestures presaging nameless upheavals. All this energy, of course, is relegated to anonymity and deprived of adequate means of expression, imprisoned by survival and obliged to find outlets by sacrificing its qualitative richness and conforming to the spectacle's categories. Think of Cheval's palace, the Watts Towers, Fourier's inspired system, or the pictorial universe of Douanier Rousseau. Even more to the point, consider the incredible diversity of anyone's dreams ─ landscapes the brilliance of whose colors qualitatively surpass the finest canvases of a Van Gogh. Every individual is constantly building an ideal world within themselves, even as their external motions bend to the requirements of soulless routine.

Raoul Vaneigem, from Revolution of Everyday Life (tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith)