The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

By Author / Illustrator

Eric Carle

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

Publisher

Penguin Random House Children's UK

ISBN

9780141340012

Format

Hardback

Published

06-10-2011

Synopsis

\"I am an artist...\" begins Eric Carle's vibrant tribute to the creative life. And just like an imaginative child, this is one artist who paints the world as he sees it-a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox, a black polar bear (!) and a wonderful polka-dotted donkey. Filled with some of the most magnificently colourful animals of Eric Carle's career, this is a book that celebrates imagination and the artist within us all.Inspired by the work of the great Expressionist painter Franz Marc, a founder of the artists' group known as Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), who famously used abstract blue horses in his paintings. Marc's vibrantly colourful paintings influenced generations of artists, and fired the imaginations of children's book artists far and wide. Examples of Marc's paintings and a short biography are included at the end of the book.

Reviews

This book tells of an artist who is unafraid to push through the boundaries of the normal, instead creating huge masterpieces of brightly coloured animals. The pictures are beautiful, each spanning a double page. The story has minimal writing, and is a book which my class come back to frequently to read alone. I am planning to use this book with my class to create our own brightly coloured alternative pictures. Ages 5+ / Reviewed by ReadingZone