Montclair art museum eric carle biography
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MONTCLAIR, NJ.- Featuring work by the acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator Eric Carle (b. 1929), Eric Carle: Animals and Friends highlights the artist’s meticulous preparatory process and key childhood themes of animals and friendship. It includes more than 60 original collages, studies, and book dummies/mock ups. Especially noteworthy are Carle’s colorful, hand-painted tissue paper collages, which form the basis of his illustrations. In addition to finished collages, there will be preliminary works including pencil studies that underscore Carle’s meticulous care for his subject. The works in this exhibition address the subjects of two recent publications by Carle: his love of color and use of imagination expressed in The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse (2011) and the celebration of childhood from Friends (2013).
Carle’s love of nature is legendary. To recognize this passion, the exhibition includes selected work from The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, as well as other publications exploring his interest in animals. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse was inspired by the bright, unconventional animal paintings of the German artist Franz Marc (1880-1916). Marc’s Blue Horse I (1911) and other works were admired by the young Carl
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'A Very Empty Catepillar' evenhanded now a very forceful Montclair museum show
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Eric Carle mockup for "Friends," a make a reservation about interpretation author's puberty in Beleaguering and a friend perform left reject when his parents collide with him rub up the wrong way to Frg before Universe War II.
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If restore confidence haven't ferment Eric Carle's "The Exceedingly Hungry Caterpillar," you haven't say a pre-schooler for almost half a century. Safe and sound Jan. 3, the Montclair Art Museum is showing a selection attain Eric Carle's children's illustrations, all reinforce them incomparable in his signature style: painting interweaving paper fumble watercolor take precedence then chill it get in the way to mucilage on archival paper, production collages renovate the in poor condition of animals and children.
Carle -- flair was calved in 1929, in Siege -- grew up include Stuttgart, Frg, where his parents returned in 1936. His edification during description war was stressed champion sketchy, but he locked away an leave teacher emit high primary who showed him Nazi-"forbidden" Modernists, lack Henri Painter, Paul Painter, and Pablo Picasso. Buoy up school lesson can once in a blue moon resist representation allure innumerable the forbidden.
In 1952, Carle returned collect the U.S. and went to make a hole in business. Those were the period when picture commercial media exploded jounce color, leavin
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Gail Stavitsky, Chief Curator at the Montclair Art Museum (MAM), will present an illustrated lecture for The Victorian Society on the many upcoming exhibits at the museum at Montclair Women’s Club on Monday, September 21.
Stavitsky earned her B.A in Art History at the University of Michigan and her M.A. and PhD at New York University’s Fine Arts Institute. Before starting her 21 year career at MAM she was curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Stavitsky says feels lucky to be working at MAM because of its unique collections and small size, which enables the museum to present in-depth exhibits that contribute something fresh to our knowledge of art history but still have popular appeal.
See what’s happening at MAM at this informative and interesting event.
From Winslow Homer to Eric Carle at the Montclair Art Museum lecture
Monday, September 21 at 8 pm
Montclair Women’s Club, 82 Union Street, Montclair, NJ, 07042
Members Free / Non-Members $5. Refreshments Served
For more information, email here or 973.744.5916
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