Boy On The Rocks

"Boy On The Rocks" is a painting by Henri Rousseau.

The painting, created in 1895-7, graced the cover of the May 19 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.cite web
url=http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/281/19/1775
title=Cover: Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 281 No. 19, May 19, 1999
date=May 19, 1999
publisher=Journal of the American Medical Association
accessyear=2007
accessdate=May 25]

His work has been described as having a "mysterious poetry" and a "dreamlike force".cite web
url=http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau/
title=Rousseau, Henri
date=July 16 2002
publisher=ibiblio
author=Nicolas Pioch
accessyear=2007
accessdate=May 25]

According to Nicolas Pioch's comments on the painting: quotation|"Only a child can so bestride the world with such ease, and only a childlike artist with a simple, naïve vision can understand this elevation and make us see it as dauntingly true."

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