interest in societies deemed to be primitive 

return to roots/very real/basic 

rejection of middle class society-focus on basic instinct and authenticity 

closer to basic human being 

more domestic life; art of children; surrealism (subconscious primitiveness)

condescending to cultures borrowed from-out of context

Rousseau, Self Portrait, 1890

compulsive attention to detail

Rousseau, View of the Bridge at Sévres, 1908

ode to transportation 

Rousseau, Carnival Evening, 18

animated by exoticism 

proto-surrealism-mystery 

Rousseau, Child with Puppet, 19

bizarre scale-strange giant 

frontality 

Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897

very meticulous-sophistication 

neck of guitar echoes lion's tale 

proto-surrealist sense of stillness

something imminent 

connection unconscious 

Rousseau, War, 1894

crazed child running alongside horse

incredibly weird 

Rousseau, Snake Charmer, 190

hyperdetail

Rousseau, The Dream, 1910

hallucinatory quality 

Klint, Altar Picture No.1, Group 10, 1915

paintings are visions from higher zones

looks modern but ISNT 

Klint, Svanen, 1914-15 

looks very modern

artist is a woman who is very conservative 

Rodia, Watts Tower, LA, California, 1921-54 

built out of found things-bottle caps, scrap metal 

Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903 

blue period-symbolist period

poverty, isolation, sadness

Picasso, The Tragedy, 1903

had a sort of all over mood 

Picasso, Boy Leading a Horse, 1905-06

rose period-palette changes, symbolic

classical quality-greek forms

no rope to lead horse-connection to horse, sense of unity and connection-sense of connection to something older 

picasso, mother and child, 1921