内容简介
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 circle dance by using bold lines and three brilliant color in The Dance.Georges Seurat created a new way of painting,with thousands of flickering little dots instead of brush storkes ,in The Can-Can.
To see through the eyes of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well.Dancers in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a book that will inspire young readers to observe their world and to use their imagination to see like a painter.
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 circle dance by using bold lines and three brilliant color in The Dance.Georges Seurat created a new way of painting,with thousands of flickering little dots instead of brush storkes ,in The Can-Can.
To see through the eyes of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well.Dancers in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a book that will inspire young readers to observe their world and to use their imagination to see like a painter.
