The Noisy Paint Box The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art

Barb Rosenstock, Mary GrandPre

eBook - 2014

A Caldecott Honor BookVasya 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 GrandPr... 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...

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Random House Children's Books
Language
English
Main Authors
Barb Rosenstock, Mary GrandPre
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size13 GB
ISBN9780307978509
Release Date2/11/2014
Kindle Book
ASINB00EMX9R50
Release Date2/11/2014
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307978509
Release Date2/11/2014