Looking at Paintings Dancers

Author: Peggy Roalf
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Publication Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Looking at Paintings is a series of books that presents many different painters' views of a single subject. Here is a visual of paintings, each of which shows us something about what great artists see when they paint. In Dancers, Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of dancers. From the work of an unknown Roman artist to Brueghel, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and others, each artist's vision and interpretation of the dance is singular. Henri Matisse, for example, expresses the powerful energy in a circular dance by using bold lines and three brilliant colors in The Dance. Georges Seurat created a new way of painting, with thousands of flickering little dots instead of brushstrokes, in The Can-Can. To see through the eyes of the world's greatest painters is to stimulate the imagination as well. Dancers in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a book that will inspire young readers to observe their world and use their imagination to see like a painter.
Author Bio: PEGGY ROALF is a painter, graphic designer, and writer who has taught art to young people and their parents at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Weekend Family Program.