The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 124 - 125

Question 1

Symbolism

Answer 1

• forerunner of surrealism

- late decade of the nineteenth century

Question 2

Rousseau: Jungles of the Imagination

Answer 2

• Henri Rousseau (1844-1919)
• he was an untrained hobby painter when, confident of his ability, he quit his job at age 40 to paint full-time
• hailed as “the godfather of twentieth-century painting”

Question 3

Redon: Fantastical Flowers

Answer 3

• Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

- technique focused on suggesting rather than describing his subject

Question 4

Ryder: Subjective Seascapes

Answer 4

• Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917)
• painted pictures from his imagination and used simplified forms and yellowish light to create works of haunting intensity
• looked to nature for inspiration