LOOKING AT PICTURES (1978) with Rolf Harris

---

Beschrijving

LOOKING AT PICTURES WITH ROLF HARRIS
A Children s Introduction to Famous Paintings

Boek in A4 formaat met harde bruine kaft met illustratie met zwarte letteropdruk in perfecte (onbelezen) conditie;
62 pagina s met tientallen illustraties enz.;

This beautiful gift book for children, packed with superb colour pictures of many of the greatest works of art, is not only a pleasure to look at, but is also a valuable and rewarding guide to famous paintings. Rolf Harris has introduced many of the pictures to the young viewer with lively and witty cartoons and drawings, guaranteed to grasp the interest of any youngster.
Rolf has always loved looking at pictures and his enthusiasm here is as infectious as it is In his highly popular television shows.
This is a book of beauty and fun for all the family as well as an invaluable introduction to the world of art.

Phaidon Pr ess Lt d, Littlegate Ho., St Ebbe s St, Oxford. First published 1978.
© 1978 Phaidon Press Ltd. Text: Kate Petty.

Pictures are fun. Just think what a painter can do. He can take you instantly to any country in the world, or to a place that has never existed except in his imagination. What s more, he can drop you there today, a hundred years in the future or a thousand years in the past.
A good painting, if you give it the chance, can whirl you off into another day and age in a flash.
It can make you happy or sad. Isn t that exciting?
As a youngster I loved looking through the old art catalogues my father had. They opened up new worlds for me, and I can remember some of them vividly to this day. One, called The Source, was a portrait of a beautiful redheaded girl in some strange dark cavern.
What did it mean? I used to conjure up all sorts of stories around that mysterious face. Another picture I recall in every detail showed a row o f poplars across a er tri ed mvself was a conv of this English ever tried myself was a copy of this English country scene.
I could go on and on about the pictures that spring to mind. There s The Laughing Cavalier (by Franz Hals), which I love to this day.
Apart from showing you the sort of clothes a man wore in those far-off days, the artist magically makes you smile and almost laugh at some amusing confidence which seems to be shared between just the two of you. It s good to be able to see in paintings how folks once lived and worked, even to see the games the children were playing. And it s easy to identify with them.
Please have fun with this book. A good painting never goes stale - and the deeper you go into it the more you get out of it.
So hop into it! It s good!

There are forty-six pictures to look at in this book, drawn or painted by thirty-five artists from all over the world. Some of them are alive today, some died many hundreds o f years ago, but they have all left pic tures for us to enjoy - pictures which show how they saw the world they lived in. You can t expect to like them all, but there will probably be several which appeal to you straight away, and others which you will return to later. The pictures are grouped under different headings, such as Animals and Faces .
This is partly so you can turn to a subject which interests you, but also so that you can compare how different artists have treated a similar subject.