Pierre Auguste Renoir (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) - Softcover

Venezia, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0531221075 ISBN 13: 9780531221075

Publisher: Children's Press, 2016

Synopsis

Meet Artist Pierre Auguste Renoir!

Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the works of renowned artists, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ages 8-9).

Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of Pierre Auguste Renoir's actual works, give children a light yet realistic overview of this artist's life and style.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Venezia is the author of several nonfiction books for children.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 2-4-Another easy-to-read biography of a famous artist. Full-color reproductions of 16 of Renoir's paintings appear throughout, including A Girl with a Watering Can, along with 9 works by his contemporaries. There are also five of Venezia's characteristic cartoons of speculative events from the artist's life (hiding under the queen's train to illustrate his childhood games in the courtyard of the Louvre, or greeting the public after his painting style became popular). Especially useful is the way the author shows Renoir's art in relation to the French Salon and to the other Impressionists. Paintings of the same scene by Renoir and Claude Monet are reproduced on facing pages, and do more to describe the Impressionist style than many paragraphs of text. The color reproduction is good; the typeface large and readable. There is no bibliography or index. More accessible to younger students than Rosabianca Skira-Venturi's A Weekend with Renoir (Rizzoli, 1991), Venezia's title is a useful series entry.-Pam Gosner, formerly at Maplewood Memorial Library, NJ

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About this edition

• Publisher: Children's Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0531221075
• ISBN 13: 9780531221075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Venezia Mike