Author: Laurence AnholtPublisher: Anholt's Artists Books for Chi
ISBN: 9780764160479
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tells the story of the artist Matisse designing the Chapelle du Rosaire.
Matisse the Master
Author: Hilary SpurlingPublisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0679434291
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence of the 20th century in paintings.
Author: John GageThe Colours of History
Author: Clive GiffordPublisher: QED Publishing
ISBN: 1786034182
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
A vibrant exploration of the stories behind different colours, and the roles they've played throughout history. Each double-page spread looks at a different shade, accompanied by vivid, imaginative illustrations.
Cloth Lullaby
Author: Amy NoveskyPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613129165
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Award-winning creators, Amy Novesky and Isabelle Arsenault, present a picture book biography of a beloved artist in Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high. Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise’s own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois’s childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works. With a beautifully nuanced and poetic story, this book stunningly captures the relationship between mother and daughter and illuminates how memories are woven into us all. “With evocative, gorgeous illustrations and an inspirational story of an artist not often covered in children’s literature, this arresting volume is an excellent addition to nonfiction picture book collections, particularly those lacking titles about women artists.” —Booklist, starred review
Matisse: Life and Spirit
Author: Aurélie VerdierPublisher:
ISBN: 9781741741537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Spanning six decades of the artist?s work, Matisse: Life & Spirit presents an extraordinary immersion in the range and depth of the art of Henri Matisse, one of the world?s most beloved, innovative and influential artists. The works reach from his early adventures in colour as a Fauvist through to the serene and distilled designs for his chapel in Vence in the south of France. Through paintings, drawings, sculptures and a compelling presentation of his triumphant cut-outs, it reveals how Matisse renewed his vision time and again over his long career, seeking new ways of celebrating the seen world and expressing the energy he felt in it. Highlights include the especially important early work Le luxe I 1907; the mid-career masterpiece Decorative figure on an ornamental ground 1925; and the majestic self-portrait, The sorrow of the king 1952, one of the largest of the famous cut-outs that the artist created in his late career. Filled with brilliant colour, dynamic energy, visual joy and emotional power, Matisse: Life & Spirit offers an inspirational journey through the life and art of this ceaselessly inventive and life-affirming painter. Developed in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which holds an exceptional collection of works by the artist, Matisse: Life & Spirit is the greatest single exhibition of Matisse masterworks ever to be seen in Sydney.
Matisse
Author: Hilary SpurlingPublisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse and Matisse the Master were together heralded as the definitive biography of the artist, and Matisse the Master went on to win the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 2005. In this abridged, one-volume edition, Hilary Spurling reveals the origins of Matisse's astonishing talent, provides a unique insight into his life and work, and, by documenting the difficult path he took alone, clearly places him at the front rank of those who made art modern.
Little Frida
Author: Anthony BrownePublisher:
ISBN: 9781662255571
Category : Imaginary companions
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
"Following a bout with polio at the age of six, Frida Kahlo's life was marked by pain and loneliness. In real life, she walked with a limp, but in her dreams, she flew. One day, her imagination took her on a journey to a girl in white who could dance without pain and hold her secrets, an indelible figure who would find her way into Frida's art in years to come. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's diary, Anthony Browne captures the essence of the artist's early flights of fancy. A note at the end offers a brief biography of the artist who has intrigued art lovers the world over."--
Author: Volkmar EssersChimp and Zee
Author: Catherine AnholtPublisher:
ISBN: 0711217610
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Chimp and Zee go to Jungletown with Mumkey to buy some bananas. But Chimp and Zee think shopping is boring and start to monkey about. They play hide-and-seek with Mumkey, and hide in her banana basket on top of a big grey stone. But the stone starts to wobble, then gets up and walks away!
