LEONARDO UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

Author: Victoria Looseleaf
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Looking At Paintings is a series of books designed to present many different painters' views of a single subject. Here is a visual feast of paintings, each of which shows us Ralph leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of circus scenes. From the work of an unknown Indian artist to Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Georges Seurat, Marc Chagall, and others, each artist's vision and interpretation of the circus is unique. Some artists, such as Reginald March in Pip and Flip and John Steuart Curry in the Flying Codona, depict the drama and excitement traditionally associated with circus acts. Other artists, such as Edward Hopper in Soir Bleu and Max Beckmann in Acrobat on Trapeze, were more unconventional in their view of the circus and used it as a means to convey the horror and despair they felt about war. To see through the eyes of many of the world's greatest painters is to inspire with imagination as well. Circus in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a book that inspires young readers to observe their world and use their imagination to see like a painter.