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Name _____________________________ Date ____________________________________ Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest by Henri Rousseau 1844-1910 1. Henri was a musician as well as an artist. What instrument did he play
and what kind of song ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why did his friends call him Le Douanier? _________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. How old was he when he began to paint full-time? ___________________________________ 4. How did he learn how to paint? _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. In which of his own paintings did he copy from Delacroix? _____________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. What did he do to make his paintings look dream-like or fanciful? _______________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Describe (tell about) the painting The Sleeping Gypsy. _______________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 8. In which painting do you see a monkey with a fishing pole? (See Links) ___________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 9. Why do you think the story described Rousseau as a lonely man? _______________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ |