Artists biography for kids
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When kids learn about famous artists in picture books and narrative nonfiction stories, it helps readers remember the famous artists in a deeper way. Why? Because stories help us remember information, giving the artists a place in our background knowledge attached to a story.
This is why I love teaching children about great artists using narrative fiction and nonfiction picture books.
Here are our favorite children&#;s books about famous artists.
Picture Books about Famous Artists
Touch the Art: Make Van Gogh&#;s Bedby Julie Appel
Make Van Gogh&#;s Bed is a Touch the Art series touch and feel board book that introduces children to famous artists. I love it! Don&#;t miss the other titles in this series like Touch the Art: Pop Warhol&#;s Top, Touch the Art: Brush Mona Lisa&#;s Hair, and Touch the Art: Catch Picasso&#;s Rooster.
Matisse Dance with Joy by Susan Goldman RubinA simple picture book that expresses the feelings one could have while looking at a Matisse painting &#; &#;Sometimes I want to dance!&#; This board book is part of a series by Goldman Rubin, the others are Andy Warhol&#;s Colors, Magritte&#;s Imagination, Jacob Lawrence in the City, and Counting with Wayne Thiebaud.
My Cup of Art by Katerina Karolik
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Who is Yayoi Kusama?
Who is she?
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who is sometimes called ‘the princess of polka dots'. Although she makes lots of different types of art – paintings, sculptures, performances and installations – she has become known for the one thing they have in common, DOTS!
What's with all the dots?
Yayoi Kusama tells the story of how when she was a little girl she had a hallucination that freaked her out. She was in a field of flowers when they all started talking to her! The heads of flowers were like dots that went on as far as she could see, and she felt as if she was disappearing or as she calls it ‘self-obliterating’ – into this field of endless dots. This weird experience influenced most of her later work.
By adding all-over marks and dots to her paintings, drawings, objects and clothes she feels as if she is making them (and herself) melt into, and become part of, the bigger universe. She said:
‘Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environment’.
She also creates environments of dots so that we can experience this feeling of self-obliteration too. She calls