Naïve Art (Primitivism)

These paintings favor flat perspective, plain outlines, and simplified figures over polished realism, giving portraits, river views, and still life a direct, almost storybook quality. Children, couples, and everyday riverside scenes appear with the same unguarded stillness, as in "Girl in a Red Dress" by Ammi Phillips. Color stays plain and unblended, with little shading to soften the forms.

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Portrait of a man in a dark suit holding a palette and a woman in a green dress with a red shawl, standing together against a beige background.

Frieda and Diego Rivera

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A tiger prowls through dense tropical vegetation with large green leaves and red flowers under stormy skies.

Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)

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A figure struggles with a gorilla amid dense tropical vegetation with orange flowers and a red sun in a green and earth-toned palette.

Tropical Landscape - An American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla

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A silhouetted figure plays a flute beside a coiled snake in a moonlit jungle landscape with lush green vegetation and a pink bird.

The Snake Charmer (La charmeuse de serpents)

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A still life painting by Henri Rousseau depicting a bouquet of pink peonies, white daisies, red tulips, and blue flowers in a clear glass vase on an orange table against a green background.

Flowers in a Vase

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A tiger and buffalo confront each other amid dense green vegetation, yellow hop flowers, and orange fruits beneath a turquoise sky.

Tropical Forest: Battling Tiger and Buffalo

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A winter landscape painting depicts ice skaters on a frozen pond surrounded by snow-covered buildings, bare trees, and boats in muted browns, whites, and grays.

Ice Skaters on a Frozen Pond

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A pastoral landscape with two brown cows and a figure in red beside a weeping willow tree, with tall cypress trees and green meadow under blue sky.

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A man with a mustache wearing a red fez and dark suit holds a striped cat against an industrial landscape.

Portrait of Monsieur X (Pierre Loti)

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A young boy in black clothing with striped stockings stands among gray rocky formations against a pale blue sky.

Boy on the Rocks

1895 · oil on linen

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A silhouetted figure plays a musical instrument in a moonlit jungle landscape surrounded by exotic plants and animals.

The Snake Charmer, 1907 (La Charmeuse de serpents)

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A pastoral woodland scene with large trees, grazing animals, and figures on a path beside water, rendered in greens, browns, and white.

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A painting depicting a riverside landscape with arched bridge, hillside buildings, flying machines, and tall trees in greens, whites, and earth tones.

View of the Bridge at Sevres and the Hills at Clamart, St. Cloud and Bellevue

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A blue vase filled with white, pink, dark red, and yellow flowers with green foliage and berries sits on a dark surface against a grey curtained background.

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A bearded man in dark formal attire holding a palette stands before a river landscape with a ship and cloudy sky in blues, whites, and earth tones.

Myself: Portrait - Landscape

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Five striped figures play football in an avenue of golden trees beneath a blue sky with white clouds.

The Football Players

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A white horse-drawn cart with orange wheels carries five formally dressed people and a small dog through a park lined with tall trees under a cloudy sky.

La Carriole du père Junier

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A white peacock surrounded by dense green tropical foliage with pink and yellow flowers against a pale blue sky.

Jaguar Attacking a Horse

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Two striped figures jump for a red ball in a landscape with trees and a white fence.

Detail of The Football Players

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Henri Rousseau's 1909 painting depicts Notre-Dame cathedral across a river with a red-flagged boat, rendered in muted greens, blacks, and creams.

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A jungle scene with a monkey among lush green vegetation, fruit trees, and flowering plants in greens, oranges, and reds.

Exotic Landscape

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White buildings with tall trees line a riverbank where four figures fish in green water below.

Landscape and Four Fisherman (Paysage et quatre pêcheurs à la ligne)

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A dense jungle scene with a red parrot, monkeys, and a standing figure among lush green foliage and tropical plants.

Monkeys and Parrot in the Virgin Forest (Singes et perroquet dans la forêt vierge)

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Dense tropical jungle scene with layered green vegetation, pink flowers on the left, white flowers on the right, and a small figure among the plants.

The Equatorial Jungle

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