Hi Eric,
Okay, again, I'm very glad to have this new information, that Rousseau
painted jungle scenes. I don't know paintings- I'm a photographer. :)
That's very interesting but in Joni's song, Joni's fantasy of Rousseau, he
*is* painting the bar scene. Check this:
"In a low-cut blouse
she brings the beer.
*Rousseau* paints a jungle flower behind her ear.
<snip>
With his hard-edged eyes and steady hand *he paints the cellar* full of
ferns and orchid vines
and he 'hangs' a moon above a five-pieced band."
In Joni's fantasy of Rousseau, the jungle painter is in a cellar nightclub,
rendering the primitive that he perceives within the urban scene. As if
Joni's saying, "If Rousseau was here, here's what *he'd* see. This is what
he would notice and capture." Just my two cents.
Lama
> Lamadoo wrote:
> "Rousseau is painting an urban scene...."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Wilcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Wrong. Rousseau doesn't paint urban scenes. If you'd like to check out
> some of his work, go to this page:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau/
>
> anyways-- what you will notice right away is taht all of his paintings are
> set in <drumroll>-- the jungle.
>
> So instead of seeing the song through Rousseau's eyes-- lets look at the
> comparison. Rousseau in his jungle proper, and Joni in her urban jungle.
