Apollinaire

What does it convey to the person who visits even now it is cut this poem to the Rousseau of grave?
Here is the room of the ancient times apartment where it is called the washing ship that is built to Paris of hill of Montmartre.
The day when has November, 1908.
The atelier of Picasso who is 27 years old was decorated for a certain dance party.
There Apollinaire of a poet and Laurencin of an artist, blaqu etc., cultured men were gathered.
The guest of honor be the 64 year-old old age artist Henri Rousseau.
This dance party was the one that I planned in order that Picasso, encourages Rousseau with the friend people.
The old age artist had a cane in the left hand,and the violin in the right hand. And, he greeted with the satisfactory face when he is seen with applause.
Rousseau is known as the representative artist of a simple sect now.
However, in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, Monet had not been evaluated yet.
A general person did not know the name of Rousseau.

The picture of Rousseau was disregarding composition.
The picture was not evaluated by the person of Paris.

However, part of artists were moved by admiration to the characteristic of the originality of Rousseau. Gauguin said "This black is not able to imitate it."

And,Picasso did not let go of the pictures of 4 sheets of Rousseau the all one's life.

As for it was invited to the dance party Rousseau the mood was good from start to finish.
Apollinaire, reads a poem that is praise Rousseau.
Rousseau played the violin of good.
I want to participate in the nice dance party.

The feeling is not expressed, to the picture of Henri Rousseau.
Was there long time from before there like exist into mysterious time.
This may be the reason that the picture of Rousseau is called a simple sect.
Rousseau had two wives.Their name is Josepheenu and Clemence.
Please see the picture that is published in the top page.
And, please see the palette that Rousseau holds.
There the name of Clemence is written.
This is the one that was rewritten at the later time.
The name of Josepheenu was written before.
And Rousseau had many children.
However, Josepheenu and Clemence are sick and died.
And, even all the children are sick and died.

Probably Rousseau may wanted to express eternal time.
And, he may wanted to express the world of an unfeeling.

There is the artist who the genre of painting has renewed from when be.
The change from the blue era to abstraction picture of Picasso is famous.

I think as Rousseau has two eras.

One be the work that Rousseau painted familiar Paris where lives
Another is the work that painted the jungle.

There is the picture called the view of a Sevre bridge' in the work in an early period.I saw the picture that Rousseau painted for the first time.

The thing that flies the sky that Rousseau was yearning is painted.
The airship and airplane and balloon are painted to a sheet of picture.

This picture is disregarding composition.
These things may be making bare the yearning to the sky of Rousseau.

I explain it about the work in the night period.
Rousseau had not parted from Paris. He has not gone to the jungle and desert.

As for the picture that painted the jungle intensity feels it.
At this time becoming the time of Rousseau might have started.
It leaves only the rest retired life...
It follows to the poem of beginning Apollinaire.

Tuyoshi Ohata.