... , " 6). Amazingly, these jungle environments were created "from visits to the zoo and botanical gardens, from postcards, books, and from Rousseau's vivid imagination, " as the artist never left France. (Tate Gallery) Sylvia Plath's poem, "Snakecharmer " bears little resemblance to Henri Rousseau's painting of the same title; instead, it is as if she wrote the poem not about the painting, but about the idea ... of classicism. His brief time creating surrealist works produced paintings that, much like other works within the style, have inspired viewers, including Sylvia Plath, to use their...

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