卢梭1844年生於法国西北部的拉瓦尔市，幼年家境并不富裕，1871年进入巴黎市政府海关处担任收税员，而终其一生，就是担任这个安份的公务员；他的闲暇嗜好，就是创作绘画，曾经获准在罗浮宫美术馆临摹。曾经参加官方的沙龙展，却未曾入选；但他仍自得其乐的不断创作。 　　卢梭於 1855 年从巴黎一所收费站中退休后，始全力作画，因此博得「关税员」的称号。别人常把他归为「原始的」、「素人的」、「周日画家」之列，他却光明正大地认为自己是不折不古的专业画家。 　　1891年起常至植物园观赏温室里的热带景物，创作了许多充满幻想式的作品，如「睡眠中的吉普赛女郎」、「梦」等，1893年退休之后，生活清苦，却全心投入绘画创作；他充满想像的作品，却获得了诗人的赞赏及毕加索等前卫画家所推崇。 　　卢梭画的主题包罗万象，除了巴黎市郊，还有手法率真直接的人像，瑰丽的寓言性作品，花卉、尤其是一批富异国情调的大幅幻想式作品，这些作品是他常逛巴黎的公园、植物园、动物园所激发出来的。 　　卢梭创作热衷于创造一个幻想的世界，他的艺术很难归到哪一派，但他的画法属超现实主义。他似乎总是生活在一个梦幻的世界，这种与生俱来的爱幻想的天真性格，在他的日常生活中也充满天真烂漫，他的画具有原始童话般的魅力。

卢梭1844年生於法国西北部的拉瓦尔市，幼年家境并不富裕，1871年进入巴黎市政府海关处担任收税员，而终其一生，就是担任这个安份的公务员；他的闲暇嗜好，就是创作绘画，曾经获准在罗浮宫美术馆临摹。曾经参加官方的沙龙展，却未曾入选；但他仍自得其乐的不断创作。 　　卢梭於 1855 年从巴黎一所收费站中退休后，始全力作画，因此博得「关税员」的称号。别人常把他归为「原始的」、「素人的」、「周日画家」之列，他却光明正大地认为自己是不折不古的专业画家。 　　1891年起常至植物园观赏温室里的热带景物，创作了许多充满幻想式的作品，如「睡眠中的吉普赛女郎」、「梦」等，1893年退休之后，生活清苦，却全心投入绘画创作；他充满想像的作品，却获得了诗人的赞赏及毕加索等前卫画家所推崇。 　　卢梭画的主题包罗万象，除了巴黎市郊，还有手法率真直接的人像，瑰丽的寓言性作品，花卉、尤其是一批富异国情调的大幅幻想式作品，这些作品是他常逛巴黎的公园、植物园、动物园所激发出来的。 　　卢梭创作热衷于创造一个幻想的世界，他的艺术很难归到哪一派，但他的画法属超现实主义。他似乎总是生活在一个梦幻的世界，这种与生俱来的爱幻想的天真性格，在他的日常生活中也充满天真烂漫，他的画具有原始童话般的魅力。

Never was a world so completely turned upside down as with the arrival of the Impressionist School. Cezanne, Seurat and Manet all produced inspirational and at the time even controversial works which completely revolutionized thinking in the world of art.

Never was a world so completely turned upside down as with the arrival of the Impressionist School. Cezanne, Seurat and Manet all produced inspirational and at the time even controversial works which completely revolutionized thinking in the world of art.

After the death of his wife, former civil servant Henri Rousseau takes up painting full time. Coming across as a rarified boob, Russell's version of Rousseau could best be described as an accidental master. Most of his canvases are crackpot versions of reality as seen through the eyes of a naïve painter, and his loneliness and lack of worldly perspective really amplifies his applied amateurishness. Russell treats this tale as sadly comic, and there are many jokes and jibes as Rousseau's expense. In fact, there is such a lighthearted atmosphere here that when we finally view the artist's best known masterpiece - "The Sleeping Gypsy" - it comes as quite a shock. Indeed, many of Russell's films purposely demystify the legendary, showing them just as capable of flaws and foibles as us mere humans. Indeed, as he continued on in his career, the filmmaker would make such an approach his main raison d'etra. Much of his work here can be seen as the basis for Women in Love, Tommy, and his ultimate classical rock god goof, Listzomania. 　　A dramatised portrait of the painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), known popularly as 'Le Douanier' because of his day job as a Customs clerk (he never reached the level implied by the nickname), both the film's best-known title and the one that actually appears on screen (Henri Rousseau: Sunday Painter) refer to the fact that his art had to be produced in his spare time, even after retirement. 　　Rousseau is played by the painter James Lloyd, the subject of an earlier Ken Russell Monitor documentary whose own career as a misunderstood naïve painter had many similarities. As Russell later told his biographer John Baxter, "He helped a lot with the atmosphere and the actors, because professionals have to adopt a different attitude when they're with someone like that. They can't do their 'acting' bit." 　　It was Russell's first fully dramatised biopic, without either the restrictions imposed by Monitor's former editor Huw Wheldon or the complex film-within-a-film framework of The Debussy Film. Here, the actors use their own voices (Lloyd's Cheshire accent neatly paralleling Rousseau's provincial Breton) or, in Annette Robertson's case, are dubbed by a male voice to create an unsettlingly androgynous Alfred Jarry. The film also reunited Russell with Melvyn Bragg and Oliver Reed, who wrote and delivered the understated commentary. 　　Given Russell's own battles with both critics and producers, it's tempting to assume that Always on Sunday is exorcising personal demons, as the film is both by and about artists who operate on instinct, frequently puting them at odds with the expectations of the mainstream establishment. Although Russell had had a much easier ride than Rousseau (at least up to this point), his work had already undergone much criticism and creative interference.

The Impressionists, a three part factual drama for BBC ONE, vividly reconstructs the movement's remarkable story. 　　Based on archive letters, records and interviews from the time, the series records the lives of the artists who were to transform the art world. 　　It is a tale of poverty and of a struggle for recognition, set against a backdrop of war and revolution. 　　But at the heart is the brotherhood of artists, bound by enduring friendships and their commitment to a new type of art which survived rows, rivalries, duels and crises. 　　The story is led by the paintings. Some of the world's most memorable art works are recreated here following the same techniques that the artists used at the time. 　　The series reveals how Monet took just 40 minutes to paint his seminal work Impression: Sunrise in a race against time to capture the light; why Manet's depiction of Olympia, in which his model brazenly gazes out of the canvas, so outraged Parisian society; and how Cézanne's 60 paintings of one mountain, Montagne Saint-Victoire, laid the foundations for cubism and modern art.