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‘Paint like Rousseau: The Sleeping Gipsy‘

Guided Event (Maestro)

Saturday, 18th December,
17:00 - 20:00

difficulty:
65 CHF
Up to -20% for members
*You would like to come with a partner to paint this theme on two separate canvases that will line up. You will add 2 tickets in your cart.
Beginner / Experienced
English
3 hours
PIE Studio, Wallstrasse 14
w/ Patricia Kaliczka
All materials included

Rousseau and his Parisian contemporaries were fascinated by wandering gypsies, the Romany people known in France as bohémiens: men and women exiled to the fringes of society during the dramatic changes of the mid-nineteenth century. French writers and artists had historically linked the Romany to Egypt as well as Bohemia, which may explain Rousseau’s depiction of a dark-skinned woman sleeping calmly—despite the large lion sniffing at her shoulder—in an arid landscape. With its flat planes of pure color, simple geometric forms, dreamlike atmosphere, and exotic subject, The Sleeping Gypsy at once conjures a desire for a preindustrial past and asserts its status as a new kind of modern art; the details of the lion’s unnerving eye and the figure’s zipperlike teeth evidence the artist’s singular pictorial imagination.

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