Musicians (Looking at Paintings)

by PEGGYROALF (Author), JosephGuglietti (Illustrator)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.20

  One of a series of books designed to present many different painters' views of a single subject. This book leads readers on a personal gallery tour of 19 favourite paintings of musicians. From the work of an unknown Roman artist to 20th-Century painters such as Hung Liu and Larry Rivers, each person's vision and interpretation of musician's is unique. In Green Violinist , Marc Chagall recreates the joy that music brought to the Jewish people persecuted by the Russian Tsars. William H. Johnson, an African-American painter, used bold shapes and colours in Street Musicians to depict entertainers who enlivened the pavement culture of New York City's Harlem. The diversity of these paintings in theme, style and technique reveals just how different one artist's vision can be from another's. To express his or her unique vision a gifted painter finds unusual ways to present ordinary events, often creating revolutionary painting techniques in the process. The text accompanying the picture gives details of the artist's life and some idea of the painting techniques. Peggy Roalf has taught at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.