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How does the work make you feel?

Why do you think you feel like this?

Does the colour, texture, form, or theme of the work affect your mood? How?

Does the work create an atmosphere?

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What is it? What is it about? What is happening?

What does the work represent?

Does the title change the way we see the work?

Is it a realistic depiction?

Have any parts been exaggerated or distorted? If so, why?

What message does the work communicate?

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When was it made? Where was it made? Who made it?

What do you know about the artist?

Does the work relate to the social or political history of the time?

Does the work relate to other areas of knowledge such as science or geography?

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What is the medium used?

What colours does the artist use? Why? How is colour organized?

What kinds of shapes or forms can you find?

What kind of marks or techniques does the artist use?

How has the artist used the other elements and principles of art? Line? Value? Space? Balance? Harmony? Contrast? Etc..

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Rousseau used paint to create this artwork

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The medium that Rousseau used was oil paints on a canvas

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circles, but most of the shapes are organic.

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The artist used many shapes to create this painting.
Obvious shpaes would be the circles, rectangles and ovals. Most of these shapes are primarially oragnic shapes.

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Rousseau used the technique of painting the canvas from top to bottom.

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The artist uses sharp colors, imagery, and precise outlines.

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Many different colours and shapes

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I see pink, brown, red, blue, white, black.

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The artist used value and line art.
Lines on mountain and dress.

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The Artist uses line, value, colour, texture by creating different line patterns and values.

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You can see all the lines that the artist drew in the mane of the lion

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I see that the artist has used different values of blue for the sky, he has used line for the woman's dress, and has used texture for the lion's mane.

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The painting was made in 1897.

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Rousseau was a french artist, and tried to sell the painting to the mayor of his hometown Laval.

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An 1897 oil painting.
Began to teach himself how to paint at the age 40.

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The Sleeping Gypsy also known as La Bohémienne Endormie, was created by Henri Rousseau in 1897.

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The painting is currently in
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.

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Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. An annual charity event known as the Bazar de la Charité was organized by the French Catholic aristocracy in Paris from 1885 onward. However, the best known or infamous of these charitable events was the tragic 1897 charity bazaar fire that occurred in May.  He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists. After Rousseau's retirement in 1893, he supplemented his small pension with part-time jobs and work such as playing a violin in the streets.

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At the age 49 he retired from his job to fully work on his art.

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"He painted each color one by one – firstly the blues and then the greens and so on – and painted from top to bottom."

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Art lovers will be familiar with the formal style paintings such by Leonardo Da Vinci and Vincent Van Gogh. Another style is evident in work with childlike simplicity known as naïve art. One artist who became famous for this style is Henri Rousseau.

Although he set his sights on becoming a famous academic painter, ironically, Rousseau instead became the complete opposite: a quintessential naïve artist. Largely self-taught, Rousseau developed a style that laid bare his lack of academic training. One-point perspective, the absence of correct proportions and the use of piercing, often unnatural colours resulted in a body of work imbued with mystery and unconventionality. In one of his paintings the bananas are shown growing upside-down and in other paintings he grouped together animals from different continents that would never live side by side in the wild.

Best-known for his lush jungle scenes, Rousseau was inspired by frequent trips to the gardens of Paris. Influenced by a combination of high and low brow sources - academic sculpture, postcards, tabloid illustrations, and trips to the Paris public zoo - Rousseau created modern, unconventional landscapes and portraits. The Surrealists, whose art celebrated the surprising juxtapositions and dreaminess characterised by Rousseau's work, admired the fantastic, often outrageous imagery that resulted from these influences - most famously, a nude woman reclining on a sofa mysteriously located in a tropical jungle.

Using student quality paint due to limited finances, Rousseau spent a considerable amount of time on each painting, so his collect of work is not extensive. His painting technique was also unique since he applied one layer of paint at a time, creating multiple layers in each piece. He painted each colour one by one - firstly the blues and then the greens and so on - and painted from top to bottom. When Rousseau painted jungles, he sometimes used more than 50 shades of green. Although from nature, his foliage was adapted to suit his artistic needs and is often unrecognisable as a particular plant.

Also the careful blending of brushstrokes that result in a smooth surface is representative of his individualised approach to painting. Another quality of his technique was the use of controlled brush strokes which make each object in the painting appear outlined. Rousseau's work was characterised by heavy dependence on line, stiff portraiture, wild juxtapositions and flattened perspective from which the Cubists and Surrealists drew heavily. His imagination was central to his work.

Rousseau's art, although previously ridiculed, had an extensive influence on major artists. It was the genuine feeling and highly decorative quality of his paintings that caught their attention. His unschooled technique and sense of childlike simplicity resonated with the 'primitivism' embraced by early-twentieth-century modern artists such as Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky, who looked to art forms such as African tribal masks and Russian folk art in their quest to find a more 'primal' means of expression. Picasso spotted a painting by Rousseau being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over and purchased it in recognition of his genius.

André Breton, also hailed Rousseau as a 'proto-Surrealist' for his art's absurdist, and metaphysical quality, and use of bright colours and clear outlines, anticipating the compositions of Surrealists such as Rene Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico. Endowed with an oddly appealing strangeness that could evoke mystery within the commonplace and the exotic, Rousseau's oeuvre left an impression imprint on artists of the next generation and beyond.

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Art lovers will be familiar with the formal style paintings such by Leonardo Da Vinci and Vincent Van Gogh. Another style is evident in work with childlike simplicity known as naïve art. One artist who became famous for this style is Henri Rousseau.

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He painted each colour one by one – firstly the blues and then the greens and so on – and painted from top to bottom

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He painted each colour one by one – firstly the blues and then the greens and so on – and painted from top to bottom

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He painted each colour one by one – firstly the blues and then the greens and so on – and painted from top to bottom

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He painted each colour one by one – firstly the blues and then the greens and so on – and painted from top to bottom

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The Sleeping Gypsy is an 1897 oil painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau

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In 1920s gypsies were performers such as musicians, circus animal trainers (the lion), and dancers.

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The painting shows a woman lies on the desert sand, beneath a moonlit starry sky. She has a mandolin at her side and a walking stick clutched in her hand. The lion standing behind her appears to watch over her, who is curious and has no predatory intent.

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the lion seems to be looking at the woman without any intent to harm the woman.

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I think the title changes the way we see the work because if we, the viewers, see the painting a certain way before we know the title we can persive it as something else. But once we know the title, we know the artist has made it as a sleeping gypsy.

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The woman is holding a stick or branch in her arms while she is sleeping. It could be used for protection. She seems to be in a desert and she probably knows that there could be danger.

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It kind of looks like with the lions head down low and looking out feels like its protecting the person while shes sleeping

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its night since there is stars and a moon

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The backround is blured and dreamy, and the focus is in the front

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Content that has been exagerated in this piece are the colors of the travellers cloths, hair and mountains.

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Pink Mountains

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The the way the moon and the dark sky with the pink mountains make me feel calm and happy

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it makes me feel almost calm and relaxed. It makes me feel this way because of some of the colours seeming muted and the mountains in the back also give it a calm feeling because the colours on them make it seem foggy and calm.

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Other than the lion chilling in the back the mood of this painting feels very serene.

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The texture, value and form affect this by making it feel calm and relaxing and all of the colours and textures is soft and seamless

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Makes me feel relaxed because of how smooth it is.

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the colorful cloths of the person sleeping makes me feel kinda calm

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Calm because of the clear night sky and tranquil background

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It looks quiet and serene. Probably because of the pastel pink colour. It makes the painting look and feel light, soft and calming.

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The bareness of the landscape suggests a dreamscape.

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The colour can affect your mood because the colours the artist has used are very calm, soothing colours which can affect your mood.

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It looks peaceful and relaxing because of the colours and background

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Makes me feel calm