Henri Rousseau: A Modern "Primitive" in Avant-Garde Paris

An Art Talk With Prof. Dennis Raverty Henri Rousseau was a self-taught painter who captured the imagination of the later Surrealists with his fantastical world of dark forests inhabited by strange animals and exotic people. Later discovered by Picasso and lionized by the Parisian avant-garde, Rousseau represented a person deeply committed to exploring the darkest regions of that overgrown, tangled jungle of the human unconscious.