If someone asked you to paint a snowman, you would probably start
with three white circles stacked one upon another. Then you would
add black dots for eyes, an orange triangle for a nose and a black
dotted smile. But if Picasso painted a snowman... From that simple
premise flows this delightful, whimsical, educational picture book
that shows how the artist's imagination can summon magic from a
prosaic subject. Greg Newbold's chameleon-like artistry shows us
Roy Lichtenstein's snow hero saving the day, Georgia O'Keefe's
snowman blooming in the desert, Claude Monet's snowmen among
haystacks, Grant Wood's American Gothic snowman, Jackson Pollock's
snowman in ten thousand splats, Salvador Dali's snowmen dripping
like melty cheese, and snowmen as they might have been rendered by
J.M.W. Turner, Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Georges
Seurat, Pablita Velarde, Piet Mondrian, Sonia Delaunay, Jacob
Lawrence and Vincent van Gogh. Our guide for this tour is a lively
hamster who-also chameleon-like-sports a Dali moustache on one
spread, a Van Gogh ear bandage on the next. "What would your
snowman look like?" the book ask and then offers a page with a
picture frame for a child to fill in. Backmatter thumbnail
biographies of the artists complete this highly original tour of
the creative imagination that will delight adults as well as
children.
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