Tag Archives: Michael Hoog

ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination

It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading

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THE TOLL COLLECTOR: Riddle of the Dreamworld

What was a nude on a sofa doing in the middle of the jungle? It was all quite simple, said Henri Rousseau: “You will no longer find that amazing in the future?”  The artist’s ability to combine naturalistic elements in … Continue reading

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