Painting Explorers - Episode 2 (Suprised!)
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In this episode The Sunflowers are checking out Suprised! (or Supris!)
French artist, Henri Rosseau, painted this picture of a tiger stalking a jungle in a storm in 1891 with oils. It's the first in a series of paintings he painted like this, with bright colours and lots of plants.
Lots of people have very different opinions about art, and neither is right or wrong. Some people say the tiger is being hunted in this painting, and other people say the tiger is hunting something.
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