The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau.

It is an extremely sophisticated and complex painting, which is difficult to interpret... The dark silhouette embodied with the stick grabbed in her hands, and above her there is a lion, gigantic and beautiful, next to it, becomes the paradigm of the creative energy of nature.

In the background there is a virtual sky of ambiguous colors, it would seem of plastic. It might be already night because the stars throw their luster, but it could also be dawn, perhaps the landscape of another world, where the mountains in the distance form the outline of a lunar unreal chain. Among the figures and the background there is a sacred river that is divided into two floors, the real from the unreal, in fact it is not clear if the animal is drinking or it is going to devour the sleeping woman, probably it only sniffs.

"The Gypsies in the Art" (I Rom nell’arte) by Bruno Morelli

Henri Rousseau(biography)

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The Violinist by Marc Chagall.

There are two figures in the foreground, the father with the violin and his son, behind them there is an old disproportionate house, near which two women greet each other.

They are located far away, on the prospect of a road leading into the deep valleys of a fantastic landscape, the stylized and barren trees, gloomy and flat sky, the colors mostly are hot but broken by large halos of brown paste and other tones are earthy. The figures and the entire composition undergo oblique cuts and schematic reductions, a formal synthesis as a result of cubist interpretation of reality. The desire to disrupt and reinvent the real world binds, as in this case, a thin, vague sound of the violin, and rich ancient gypsy music with its power to influence and renew the Western tradition.

"The Gypsies in the Art" (I Rom nell’arte) by Bruno Morelli

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The Juggler by Marc Chagall

The next picture is "The Juggler" by Marc Chagall. A juggler with a double profile, "cubist", greets the audience with his ridiculous hat and a ball at his side makes a turning and stands in the deep blue of the starry night like a full moon.
Another acrobat dives down from the trapeze on a half green and half blue horse and around, as a kind of frame, a myriad of characters surrounds the space in many anecdotes and episodes: strange anthropomorphic and zoomorphic performances on a journey through a dream and nightmare of the distance the background of a landscape, perhaps the prospect of the Seine. Much of childhood returns in the imagination of the artist who grew up in a Jewish family in Vitebsc, a remote Russian village which becomes a creative place of his entire narrative poetry. Childhood memories enliven the shady characters of his paintings: farmers at work, poultry, Gypsy musicians, circus, together with folktales imbue his works with mythological character.

The thesis "The Gypsies in the Art" (I Rom nell’arte) by Bruno Morelli

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The Fortune-Teller by Caravaggio

Here's another masterpiece: "The fortune-teller" by Caravaggio. Who does not know this great painter? And he was also inspired by the Gypsies. Let's analyze carefully this painting. Someone describes it in this way:
"The subject is a gypsy girl while reading the palm of the knight, steals the ring from his hand.
The framework has a very moralistic message: be wary of others, especially in the case of flatterers. "(Wikipedia)
And someone else describes it in this way:
"The eyes of the fortune-teller and a man meet, she holds the hand of the young man, she reads it, but does not look at it, she follows it with her fingertips like Braille printing and at that time her eyes are focused on the customer "to psychoanalyze". But what makes Caravaggio paint this scene and for whom? "(Bruno Morelli – a gypsy artist)
The tradition wants Caravaggio to have chosen for a model a real gypsy who passed in front of his studio.

Has any gypsy ever read your palm?
In fact, they never look at your palm but with their eyes they penetrate into your soul and amaze you.

And this is the art that has its own charm.

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