The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors And Sounds Of Kandinsky's Abstract Art

Description

A Caldecott Honor Book Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers like a proper artist. But as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the reds, the yellows, the blues, he heard a strange sound the swirling colors trilled like an orchestra tuning up for a symphony! And as he grew older, he continued to "hear "brilliant colors singing and "see "vibrant sounds dancing. But was Vasya brave enough to put aside his proper still lifes and portraits and paint . . . "music?" In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPre tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art. Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors and bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from his noisy paint box. "Backmatter includes four paintings by Kandinsky, an author s note, sources, links to websites on synesthesia and abstract art.""

Author description

BARB ROSENSTOCK is the author of T"he Camping Trip that Changed America, "illustrated by Mordecai Gerstein, and "Fearless: The Story of Racing Legend Louise Smith, "illustrated by Scott Dawson. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband, sons, and two big poodles. MARY GRANDPRe is best known as the illustrator of the Harry Potter books. She also illustrated "The Blue Shoe "by Roderick Townley and the picture books "The Carnival of the Animals" written by Jack Prelutsky and "Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat" by Jennifer Armstrong.