{"id":3585,"date":"2022-02-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artnsketch.com\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2022-05-14T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T22:49:21","slug":"the-sleeping-gypsy-elegance-of-childlike-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artnsketch.com\/the-sleeping-gypsy-elegance-of-childlike-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sleeping Gypsy – Elegance of Childlike Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Title:<\/strong>\u00a0The Sleeping Gypsy (La Boh\u00e9mienne Endormie<\/em>) Would you be able to protect your childhood imagination from all the chaos of life? Well, what if a 50-year-old customs agent & self-taught artist could protect it and see the world through the eyes of a child? (Besides, he never took an art class and began paintings only in his forties.)<\/em> What kind of paintings could he create, and how on earth could his paintings be successful? Or could it be possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I assume you would be surprised if I told you that the self-taught artist amazed the world with his raw talent, and his dynamic works astounded viewers. Nonetheless, he influenced revolutionary artists such as Pablo Picasso<\/a><\/strong>, Frida Kahlo<\/a><\/strong>, Andr\u00e9 Breton<\/a><\/strong>, and Wassily Kandinsky<\/a><\/strong>. In the end, he persuaded the world that his extraordinary naive art deserved a place on museum walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today his most standout work, “The Sleeping Gypsy<\/strong>,” is seen hanging in one of the most prominent modern art museums, MoMA<\/a><\/strong>. The painting is an excellent depiction of a lion watching over a sleeping woman drenched in the tone of the music while dreaming in the moonlight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Author:\u00a0<\/strong>Henri Rousseau\u00a0(Laval, France, May 21, 1844 \u2013 Paris, France, September 3, 1910)
Date:\u00a0<\/strong>1897
Genre:\u00a0<\/strong>Genre art
Movement:<\/strong>\u00a0Orientalism, Na\u00efve art
Technique:\u00a0<\/strong>Oil painting
Support:<\/strong>\u00a0Canvas
Dimension:\u00a0<\/strong>51\u00d779 in. (129.5 x 200.7 cm)
Location:\u00a0<\/strong>The Museum of Modern Art, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Suppose you could hold and keep it precisely, and if I asked you to transmit your life onto the canvas by using this imagination, what kind of paintings do you think would come out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n