Children: Looking at Paintings Oil Painting for Beginners - Children

Author: Peggy Roalf
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Publish Date: 1993-04-01
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 something about what great artists see when they paint. In Children, Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of children. From the work of an unknown Egyptian artist to Peter Paul Rubens, John Singer Sargent, William H. Johnson, and others, each artist's vision and interpretation of children is unique. Some artists, such as Hans Holbein the Younger in Edward VI as a Child and Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez in his painting titled Portrait of the Infanta Margarita, immortalize the offspring of powerful kings and queens. Others, such as Frank W. Benson in Calm Morning and Mary Cassatt in Children Playing on the Beach, capture the pleasures of children at play. To see through the eyes of many of the world's greatest painters is to awaken with imagination as well. Children 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.