READING PLAN FIRST YEAR
´Tell me a picture´ by Quentin Blake
This is a very extraodinary work made by the British Illustrator Quentin Blake to help the young students to talk and tell about pictures in general. The most usual descriptions and comments that could be said by them in front of several pictures in Englisg language. Some of the pictures chosen are surprising and awesome and some other much more popular but all of them very interesting by the point of view of the youngest at high school.
Talk about some of the artists who did the pictures .....
Hendrick
Avercamp
(January 27, 1585 – May 15, 1634)
He was
a Dutch painter.
Avercamp was born in Amsterdam. He was one of the first landscape painters of the
17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the Netherlands in
winter. Avercamp's paintings are colorful and lively, with carefully crafted
images of the people in the landscape. Many of Avercamp's paintings feature
people ice skating on frozen lakes.
Avercamp used the painting
technique of aerial
perspective. The depth is suggested by change of colour in
the distance. This technique strengthens the impression of depth in the
painting.
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| Winter Landscape on ice skating |
Michael
Foreman
(born March 1938) is a British
author and illustrator,
one of the best-known and most prolific creators of children's books.
His
aim in illustration is to make the worlds created believable, real: "I
keep trying to make things more real, not in a literal photographic sense, but
in an emotional sense , telling a story by capturing the essence of the
situation, giving it some meaning.
Roberto Inocenti
( born 1940 ) .
He is an Italian painter and
illustrator
From
the beginning of his career there are two things in his illustrations: his love
for History and his respect for the books texts. All the tales illustrated by
Inocenti are placed in a specific historic frame which the artist
have created with lots of details. Remain loyal to a text means to
respect the writer´s work , understanding the story and wanting to tell it.
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| Pinoccio |
Pietro
Longhi
(1702, 1785)
He was a
Venetian
painter
of contemporary genre
scenes of life. Many
of his paintings show Venetians at play, such as the depiction of the crowd of
genteel citizens awkwardly gawking at a freakish Indian rhinoceros.
Other
paintings chronicle the daily activities such as the gambling parlours that
proliferated in the 18th century. Nearly half of the figures in his genre
paintings are faceless, hidden behind Venetian Carnival mask. The puppet-like delicacy of the persons, seem
to suggest a satirical perspective of the artists toward his subjects.
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| Exhibition of the Rhino at Venice |
Paula
Rego
(born
26 January 1935),
She is a Portuguese born visual artist
who is particularly known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks.
Rego’s style has evolved from abstract
towards representational, and she has favoured pastels
over oils
for much of her career. Her work often
reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from
her native Portugal. She lives and works in
London.She is a prolific painter and printmaker, and in earlier years also
produced collage
work. Her well-known depictions of folk tales and images of young girls, made
largely since 1990, bring together methods of painting and printmaking that
emphasise strong, clearly drawn forms.
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| Dreaming of Animals |
Paolo Ucello
(born1397 – died 1475).
He was an Italian
painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in
art. He used perspective in order to
create a feeling of depth in his paintings. Paolo worked in the Late Gothic
tradition, and emphasized colour and pageantry rather than the Classical
realism that other artists were pioneering.
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| Saint George and the Dragon |
Józef Wilcon
(Born February 1930)
He is an
illustrator, painter, sculptor, and scenographer. He was in Poland.
He
studied panting and art history. Józef
Wilkoń is one of the greatest Polish artists in the field of illustration. He
has contributed to nearly two hundred books for both children and adults. Works
illustrated by him have been translated into more than 20 languages.
The artist most often portrays animals and nature in fast
and decisive brush strokes. His illustrations are
realistic, they do not embellish nor idealise nature. Wilkoń is rarely
interested in humans, but the psychological portraits of animals created by him
are essentially portraits of people. Using
animals as metaphors, much can be said about people.
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| Bats in the Belfry |
John
"Jack" Butler Yeats
(29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957)
Butler's
early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils
in 1906. Yeats was born in London,
England. He was the youngest son of an Irish portraitist and his brother
received in the year 1923 the
Novel Prize in Literature. His favourite subjects included the Irish landscape, horses, circus and
travelling players. His early paintings and drawings are distinguished by an energetic
simplicity of line and colour, his later paintings by an extremely vigorous and
experimental treatment of often thickly
applied paint.
From around 1920, he developed into an
intensely Expressionist artist, moving from illustration to Symbolism.
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| Circus Scene |
