Ridiculed by many critics during his lifetime, he eventually came to be recognized as an artistic genius.
그의생전에는많은비평가들에게비웃음을당했지만, 그는결국천재화가로인정받게되었다.
Sunday painter
일요일의화가
Rousseau was born in the town of Laval, in France's Loire Valley.
Rousseau는프랑스Loire 계곡의Laval이라는마을에서태어났다.
After the death of his father in 1868, he moved to Paris to support his widowed mother.
그의아버지가1868년에돌아가신후에, 그는미망인이된어머니를부양하기위해파리로이사했다.
He got a job as a toll collector in 1871.
그는1871년에통행세징수원으로취직을했다.
It was at this time that he started to paint in his spare time as a hobby.
그가취미로여가시간에그림을그리기시작한것은바로이때였다.
He never received formal training.
그는결코정식교육을받지않았다.
He taught himself to paint by copying paintings in the art museums of Paris or by sketching in the city's botanical gardens and the National Museum of Natural History.
Rousseau openly claimed that he had "no teacher other than nature."
Rousseau는자신에게'자연이외에다른스승은없다'고공공연하게주장했다.
Being a self-taught painter, Rousseau developed a highly personal style with an absence of correct proportions, a flat perspective, and the use of sharp, often unnatural, colors.
His knowledge of tropical plants and animals came mainly from the botanical gardens and zoos of Paris, as well as from academic sculptures and wildlife pictures.
Rousseau once described his frequent visits to the botanical gardens as follows:
Rousseau가한번은자신이식물원에자주가는것을다음과같이묘사했다.
When I go into the glasshouses and I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter a dream.
온실에들어가서이국적인나라의낯선식물을볼때, 나는꿈에들어서는것같다.
He also met with soldiers who had fought in the jungles of Mexico, and he listened to the stories of these men to gain inspiration for his jungle paintings.
Rousseau based the central pair of animals on a stuffed animal display in the National Museum of Natural History.
Rousseau는중앙의한쌍의동물에대한기준을국립자연사박물관에있는박제동물전시에두었다.
Rousseau painted more than 25 pieces with jungle themes.
Rousseau는정글을테마로하여25개이상의작품을그렸다.
Although his paintings seemed simple at first glance, they were built up carefully in layers, using a large number of green shades to capture the richness of the jungle.