This past month, all of our students have been preparing for our annual ART SHOW!
For the June 1st opening of this year’s Arts Festival, the upstairs art gallery will feature student works created about and inspired by the artworks of Henri Rousseau. Henri Rousseau is a French post-impressionist painter whose work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists. He started painting in his 40’s and focused on paintings about imaginative jungle scenes from the rain forests in Africa. He never left France but visited botanical gardens on a regular basis to try and learn as much as he could about various species of plants. Mr. Rousseau’s paintings steadily rose to fame throughout the 1900’s with a large retrospective taking place between two museums in the mid-1980’s: in Paris at The Grand Palais and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Our student artworks will be on display from June 1st throughout the remainder of the school year. Below please find images of the original artworks by Mr. Rousseau and the works in progress that they inspired in some of our students. Enjoy!
