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The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. [1] After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a level of notoriety matched by few Orientalist paintings," [2] as it became a lightning-rod for criticism of Orientalism in general and Orientalist painting in particular, although Said ...
The Snake Charmer (French: La Charmeuse de Serpents) is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree.
As with other painters of Classical Realism and Academic art of the 19th century, Gérôme's prestige and popularity sharply declined in the 20th century; his painting The Snake Charmer, which sold for $19,500 in 1888, sold for $500 in 1942. [47] Now his works are once again sought-after in the international art market.
Rousseau's painting may even have influenced the naming of the Fauves. [4] In 1907, he was commissioned by artist Robert Delaunay's mother, Berthe, Comtesse de Delaunay, to paint The Snake Charmer. [citation needed]
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Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake; Serpent Cave; The Serpent Chooses Adam and Eve; Serpent labret with articulated tongue; Serpent symbolism; The Sin (Stuck) Snake (Nolan) The Snake Charmer; The Snake Charmer (Rousseau) Snakes (M. C. Escher) The Soul Breaking the Links Holding it to the Earth
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
The Snake Charmer, an oil-on-canvas Orientalist painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. The Snake Charmer (Rousseau) , 1907 painting by French artist Henri Rousseau Snake-charmer stone , a picture stone found at Smiss, När socken, Gotland, Sweden