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Ozenfant was speaking of Picasso, not of the repertory of the
good
douanier,
who, as Mr. Rich says in this reprinting of his authoritative
and pleasant essay on Rousseau, counterpointed the plane of the dream
against the plane of reality. The surrealists have not more advantageously
reconciled mental with natural geography. Mr. Rich has analyzed the
grammar of this pseudo primitivist: Rousseau's sensitive intervals, his
silhouettes, his adjustment of simple planes, his great areas of light, his
botanical inspirations, his clarifications small and large, his calm. All
these are astonishing, and his subjects, too--the paradise of The Dream.
But Rousseau astonishes more than once because his counterpoint is
neither impressionist nor isolated, because his anxieties are transformed
into gay myth, and because this old angel, as Apollinaire called
him,
is
a painter and always an Inhabitant of Delight.
WYLIE SYPHER
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