Dancers: Looking at Paintings

Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of dancers. From the work of an unknown Roman artist to Breughel, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and others, each artist s vision and interpretation of the dance is singular. Henri Matisse, for example, expresses the powerful energy in a circle dance by using bold lines and three brilliant colors in The Dance. Georges Seurat created a new way of painting, with thousands of flickering little dots instead of brush strokes, in The Can-Can. This book inspires young readers to observe their world and to use their imagination to see like a painter. Full-color paintings. Ages 8-12.