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Vasya's Noisy Paint Box: How Vasily Kandinsky's Ears Invented Abstract Art (2014)

by Barbara Rosenstock(Favorite Author)

4.26 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307978494 (ISBN13: 9780307978493)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

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review 1: With some strategic paper-clipping toward the middle, this was a great read-aloud to complement a library program on Kandinsky for kindergarteners through second graders. Despite my art history BA, I didn't know about Kandinsky's synesthesia, and this book takes what is a rather difficult concept for younger kids to understand and makes it seem like the simplest thing in the world. GrandPre's illustrations definitely help in that way - they're beautiful, muted, and yet vibrant in a way that really gets across the idea that color and sound were interchangeable for Kandinsky. If there's one really great thing that's coming out of Common Core, it's all the wonderful picture book nonfiction like this book.
review 2: A simple story of the life of Vasya Kandinsky,... more the Russion artist who began the Abstract Art movement. Kandinsky first received a paint set from his aunt and quickly learned that he heard wondrous music when he mixed the colors and painted. But his parents wanted him to focus on academics. And his art teacher wanted him to paint houses, flowers, trees. Kandinsky wasn't happy.Eventually as an adult he decided to make painting his career. But the critics didn't like his work. He didn't care. He wanted to know how his paintings made people feel. And in that he succeeded. less

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