Book Description

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 Flowers,Peggy Roflf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of flowers,From the work of Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo to twentieth-century artists such as Paul Klee and Henri Matisse,each person's vision and interpretation of flowers in unique.Some artists,such as Edouard Manet in Puik and Clematis in a Crystal Vase and Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Spring Bouquet,present a more traditional and familiar view of flowers by painting them in a vase and by emphasizing the background as well as the blooms.An artist such as Georgia O'Keeffe,however,captures the more wild and tempestuous beauty of a flower in White Sweet Peas,whereas Rene Magritte in The Wrestler's Tomb focuses on a single bloom so closely that it becomes almost something other than a flower.

To see through the eyes of many of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well.Flowers in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a bok that will inspire young readers to observe their world and to use their imagination to see like a painter.

About Author

PEGGY 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 Program.She is a member of The Authors Guild.