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Brush Of The Gods (2013)

by Lenore Look(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0375870016 (ISBN13: 9780375870019)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Schwartz & Wade

review 1: This picture book provides a lively and engaging introduction to Wu Daozi, widely considered to be China's greatest painter. The book follows the young boy as he painstakingly tries to learn calligraphy. But instead of the characters he is supposed to be copying, his strokes turn into animals and flowers. Eventually, he grows older, and his paintings become so realistic that they literally come to life and leave the paintings. The watercolor, ink, gouache, and colored pencil illustrations are lovely tributes to this exceptionally talented artist while reminding readers that all paths and talents are not the same. What a loss it would have been if he had somehow managed to transform his artistic vision into the discipline of calligraphy! Add this book to a classroom text se... moret featuring books about artists.
review 2: I really wanted to like this more because I want more people to know about Chinese artists (and I was recently in Chang'an/Xi'an, so it has extra meaning for me, more than the usual cultural heritage relevance), but the prose didn't sing for me. It didn't flow as well as it could from beginning to end, and was disjointed in certain parts -- e.g. when his painting came alive and disappeared and people stopped giving him money which he'd been using to feed starving children, and then suddenly, years passed. What?Plus, I have to note, "sigh" and "marvel" are not proper dialogue tags. less

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