Rousseau's so-called “primitive” style—flattened perspective, luminous foliage, figures poised between innocence and menace—broke every academic rule, and in doing so, built a new visual language. Works like The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) and The Dream (1910) feel both childlike and terrifying, lit by the eerie calm of dreams too lucid to escape.

Rousseau’s jungle scenes were painted from Parisian gardens and illustrated books, yet they captured a subconscious wilderness—of desire, fear, and freedom—that no realist ever could. His contemporaries mocked him, but Picasso, Apollinaire, and the Surrealists saw what he truly was: a visionary who made imagination respectable again.

Rousseau died in 1910, poor and ridiculed, but his influence rippled outward through Surrealism, Modernism, and every artist who’s ever believed that sincerity can defy sophistication. He painted not what he saw, but what he felt—and that, in the end, was the real revolution.

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