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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Painter and the Wild Swansdi Claude Clement
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Explores what motivates a great painter---portraying beauty and not fame and fortune---and his realization that seeing great beauty is more important than portraying it. Japanese calligraphy appears throughout the book, including the page at the end with a poem by Teiji. It's not clear to me if Teiji is the artist in the story or a real person; the book is dedicated to the photographer, Teiji Saga, and a painter, Rudo Krivos. The author and illustrator share a last name but are not related to each other. SPOILER: Realizing this, he becomes the embodiment of that beauty---wild, white swans. Fortunately he buys the boat from the fisherman instead of insisting that the man row him to the island: the boat capsizes, the painter manages to swim ashore, and turns into a swan. A poem at the end of the book tells of a man become swan who looks back on his human life. Interesting art work, with swirls that are branches and swan outlines. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Transfixed by the beauty of a passing flock of white swans, a Japanese painter finds that he cannot work until he sees them again. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)843.914Literature French French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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I'm not sure, really, why my library catalogues The Painter and the Wild Swans as a folktale, as it is an entirely original creation, but I am glad to have run across it, as I greatly admire Monsieur Clément's art (I own a copy of The Voice of the Wood, as well as Hélène Tersac's somewhat surreal picture-book, The Animals' Ball, which he illustrated), and found the story serenely engaging. Really though (and this is no disparagement of Claude Clément), I'd enjoy a laundrey list, if Frédéric Clément had illustrated it! Obviously inspired by Japanese art here, he delivers winter vistas of astounding beauty, some of them with the little surreal details - the series of mountain scenes, for instance, in which the two peaks eventually become the robe of an old man - I have come to expect. All in all, this was a delight - well worth the time of any picture-book lover with a taste for beauty! ( )