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Re: Rousseau and Sansevierias

At 05:05 PM 2/8/00 , Stephen Jankalski wrote:
>Dear Narda,
>
>Oh, don't get me started about Rousseau. I understand he is trying to show a
>Utopia where everyone and everything gets along.   The painting of The
>Peaceable Kingdom, dne in many versions, and based on the theme of the
>lion lying down with the lamb, is mean to deliberately show a world in
>which all things are peacefully juxtaposed; it is not botanical
>illustration, it is not an attempt to portray any one known landscape or
>climate in which  orchids and lima beans are the host to the gazelle and
>the sabre toothed tiger.


art is like that. you can do what you want. in that way, it is like music.

Rousseau was a great artist, a sophisticated man who elected to paint in a
primitive way.

Gaugin, who did go to Tahiti, ate nothing but canned food imported from
France unless none was available,
  and moaned constantly about his primitive surroundings. it did not stop
him from opening up a window into an exotic world.
I have on my arm a Chinese woody peony and some orchids from Madagascar. no
problem, they look great together, as i am not a teaching text.

hermine
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