Elsa Beskow

Jul 05, 2011 23:16

сегодня познакомилась с новым художником иллюстратором  и как всегда знакомство произошло совершенно случайно , заскочили "охладиться" в барнс энд нобл , пока Ронюша играл с паровозиками , я решила найти книгу " Точка"  Рейнолдса , а нашла вот эту :


иллюстрации настолько мне понравились  ( такие нежные, добрые , напомнили мне иллюстрации из книг моего детства),  что придя домой, тут же полезла в гугл и вот что я нашла :

ELSA BESKOW
Elsa Beskow (1874-1953) is the Beatrix Potter of Scandinavia, and for over one hundred years Swedish children have grown up with her books. With a focus on nature, the changing seasons and the adventures you can only have as a child, her books transcend nationality and time and are true classics. In her books Beskow used her own childhood experiences as a source for ideas. Her own six children also inspired her work. Central themes were the relationships between children and adults and children's independent initiative. The pictures were large, with carefully studied details of nature and bourgeois small town life. Often Beskow combined reality with elements from the fairy tale world - ordinary children meet elves or goblins, ugly witches sulk on the street corners, and farm animals talk with people. The texts were written in verse or in prose. Sometimes Beskow satirized manners, as in the poem about the foreign Mr. Tomato, who is envied by a local cucumber, admired by Miss Parsley, and imitated by small radishes. Beskow's most popular books included TOMTEBOBARNEN (1910), TANT GRÖN, TANT BRUN OCH TANT GREDELIN (1918), and PETTER OCH LOTTA series (5 vols., 1918-47). PELLES NYA KLÄDER (1912) emphasized the importance of honest work. Its illustration showed the influence of National Romanticism - a style that inspired many Nordic artists from the 1890s, among them Carl Larsson. RÖDA BUSSEN OCH GRÖNA BILEN (1952) depicted adventures of an archetypical Swedish car, Volvo...






художники, books

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