Self-portraits

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—nnvThin j[j 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 Self-portraits, Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen artists' paintings of diemselves. From the work of Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and others, each painter takes a unique view of this subject. The diversity in themes, styles and techniques reveals the ims^ination and creativity with which different artists show dtemselves. Albrecht Dürer in Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle wA hignolo Bronzino in his Portrait of a Young Man take die traditional perspective of the self-portrait by painting themselves as the sole object on the canvas. Marc Chagall in Double Portrait with Wine Glass has a completely different style for his self-portrait and paints himself in a dream-like landscape perched on the... Tovább

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—nnvThin j[j 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 Self-portraits, Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen artists' paintings of diemselves. From the work of Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and others, each painter takes a unique view of this subject. The diversity in themes, styles and techniques reveals the ims^ination and creativity with which different artists show dtemselves. Albrecht Dürer in Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle wA hignolo Bronzino in his Portrait of a Young Man take die traditional perspective of the self-portrait by painting themselves as the sole object on the canvas. Marc Chagall in Double Portrait with Wine Glass has a completely different style for his self-portrait and paints himself in a dream-like landscape perched on the shoulders of his wife.
To see through the eyes of many of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well. Self-portraits 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.
LOOKING AT PAINTINGS tides include;
Children Circus Dogs Musicians
Flowers Horses Landscapes Self-Portraits
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^ EGGY ROALF is a painter, graphic designer and writer who has taught art to young people and their parents in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Weekend Family Programme.
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The picture can be found on page 40.
Cover design by Joseph Guglietti Vissza