When Pigasso Met Mootisse

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When Pigasso met Mootisse, what begins as a neighborly overture escalates into a mess. Before you can say paint-by-numbers, the two artists become fierce rivals, calling each other names and ultimately building a fence between them. But when the two painters paint opposite sides of the fence that divides them, they unknowingly create a modern art masterpiece, and learn it is their friendship that is the true work of art.
Nina Laden's wacky illustrations complement this funny story that non only introduces children to two of the world's most extraordinary modern artists, but teaches a very important lesson&dash;how to creatively resolve a conflict—in a most unusual way.

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Great Intro to ART.......2007-09-28

What a fantastic book to introduce some masters to your child. Wonderful, bright pictures and an adorable story!

A work of art that's fun to read.......2007-08-13

Such a humorous and educational way to learn about the two masters of 20th century modernism. My son has this book and I've given it to other kids and everyone loves it, and they amazingly retain and remember the facts about the real artists as well. Excellent way to expose your child to the arts in a way that's fun and memorable.

Fun book.......2007-01-05

Whether your kid knows who Picasso is or not, this is a fun play on Famous Artists and their feuding ways. My Kindergartener loves this book.

this book inspired my 2 year old to paint.......2006-12-13

This book is my daughter's favorite. We have read it every day for the past 9 or so months and she has most of the punch lines memorized, (e.g., "mootisse was not like the other bulls" "it was a modern art mess" "the silence was broken" "i'm tired of this crowded cow town"). After reading it the first time, she said she wanted to draw with paint. And she did. Now we do watercolors all the time and she knows that Picasso and Matisse were great artists. This book provided a fun and funny way for her to learn about two art masters and their styles while also teaching a lesson about conflict resolution.

We have taken this book on flights across the country and overseas. The illustrations and the story engage my daughter to no end. The description of this book is for 4-8 year olds but unlike Roberto: The Insect Architect by Nina Laden (also a funny, well-illustrated book), I find Pigasso/Mootisse to be appropriate for a younger {pre}reader as well. I'm back to buy more copies as gifts for all the kids that I know.

Great story of friendship, art, and puns, too!.......2005-12-30

This terrific book recounts the rivalry and eventual friendship of Picasso and Matisse, er, ah, excuse me...I meant, Pigasso and Mootisse. The protagonists in this story live across the street from each other and first hurl insults like,"You paint like a wild beast", (that's called "fauvism" for all you art lovers or snobs out there!) while Mootisse retorts, "You are pig-headed". Throughout, the paint and puns fly.
Beautiful visuals and a great afterward that tell the "real" story of Picasso and Matisse complete this utterly charming book. A good intro to art world for the little ones, as well as a lesson on the power of friendship and tolerance.

Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry)

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Dance Me to the End of Love
Great song, lame irrelevant Matisse
Way to go again Leonard
Unique and highly recommended title
The best birthday present ever!

Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry)
Leonard Cohen
Manufacturer: Welcome Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1932183930
Release Date: 2006-08-15

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The Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, known primarily for his mournful tunes of love misplaced, has produced a surprising message of hopeful passion in this playful picture book for grownups in love. The 21 Matisse illustrations sprawl luxuriously across the pages. Art, poetry, and the suggestion of erotic delights... what more can a lover ask?

Book Description

10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome is thrilled to present the entirely re-imagined and redesigned Dance Me to the End of Love. With the art of Matisse and the words of Cohen still at the heart of the book, the new look and feel of this Art & Poetry book is overwhelmingly beautiful.
Cohen's song is a lyrical tribute to the miracle of love, the grace it bestows on us and its healing, restorative power. Originally recorded on his Various Positions album, and featured in Cohen's anthology, Stranger Music, this poetic song is gloriously married to the art works by Henri Matisse, perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century. "I had this dance within me for a long time," Matisse once said in describing one of his murals. Dance Me to the End of Love is the perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and all other lovers as well.

Customer Reviews:

Dance Me to the End of Love.......2007-09-01

It's hard to believe Matisse did not collaborate on this book. The perfect symbiosis of the poetry and illustrations truly dance you through to the end. I bought this book as a gift. I'm keeping it.

Great song, lame irrelevant Matisse.......2007-05-12

Dance Me to the End of Love is a supremely great song, but the sketchy Matisse paintings that promiscuously drape this book do nothing to enhance it.

Way to go again Leonard.......2007-04-17

Top quality. Really lovely. Nice for couples to read together. Great for the coffee table.

Unique and highly recommended title.......2006-10-08

Based upon an original poem by Leonard Cohen which is showcased through the distinctive artwork of Henri Matisse, Dance Me To The End Of Love is a lyrical tribute to the emotion of love and its power to heal broken hearts and broken lives. Gracing the picturebook collections of family, school, and community libraries, this Dance Me To The End Of Love is a unique and highly recommended title that will have a very special appeal to young children and their parents,

The best birthday present ever!.......2005-11-13

Theo my boyfriend, produced this book for my birthday in Feb 2004, it was the best present I have received so thoughtful and different. The words and illustrations compliment each other beautifullly, it is a short book but definetly one you will want to read over and over again.

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lovely book
Nudity?
Nudity Not Appropriate for My Infant Son
Very Cute
Incredible Introduction to Art

A Magical Day with Matisse
Julie Merberg , and Suzanne Bober
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 081183414X

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With a narrative that will entertain art lovers of all ages, this new board book is a fun way to introduce young children to fine art. The little ones will love spending A Magical Day with Matisse in a world full of music, color, bobbing sailboats, and tickled toes. Playful rhyming texts accompany the artist s timeless paintings in this little masterpiece.

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lovely book.......2007-07-28

I love these series of books. My daughter instantly loved this book and she's only 15 mos. old. I started reading "In the garden with Van Gogh" when she was 6 mos. old. She loves them both now. The rhymes are very cute as well.

Nudity?.......2006-07-12

It's nothing your kid hasn't seen before. My niece, she's thrilled there are other people who run around nakie, just like she (and most toddlers) prefers to do.

Nudity Not Appropriate for My Infant Son.......2006-06-02

I love all 5 of the books in this series, but I just returned this one with the Matisse artwork.

I just felt that pictures of a bunch of BUCK NAKED PEOPLE sitting around playing instruments and a group of BUCK NAKED PEOPLE dancing around in a circle just weren't appropriate for my infant son's collection of books right now (well, maybe EVER). I wish someone had told me BEFORE I had purchased it . . . it's more than just 'bobbing sailboats' and 'tickled toes' . . .

Very Cute.......2006-03-21

Just the thing if you want to spend some time reading something that is both cute and educational!

Incredible Introduction to Art.......2006-03-16

My daughter is 17 months old and loves this series of books. The artwork is representative of the original work and the words do a great job of telling a story for each picture in a descriptive way without "squashing creativity" for the reader.

One minor concern, if you have any objection to nudity, there are pictures of representational nudes in the Matisse book that are indicative of his work. My husband and I discussed it and introduced it to our daughter who didn't seem to care at all. She just loved the "people dancing."

Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions)

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Must read for Art lovers!!!
Lucid, Riviting Artist Stories
Esthetic in braid
Matisse and Picasso by Flam
Excellent Juxtoposition

Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions)
Jack D. Flam
Manufacturer: Westview Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 081339046X
Release Date: 2004-05-04

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The parallel lives of two compelling and competitive artists and their recurrent engagements with desire and mortality.

Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and ethereal realm of being. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. In Matisse and Picasso, Jack Flam explores the compelling, competitive, parallel lives of these two artists and their very different attitudes toward the idea of artistic greatness, toward the women they loved, and ultimately toward their confrontations with death.

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Must read for Art lovers!!!.......2006-05-24

This is an excellent book. I am thoroughly enjoying it.
This book compares great painters 'Henri Matisse' and 'Pablo Picasso' works and the influence of each other and their works on the others art.
Henri Matisse with his keeping the painting simple and lively and Picasso with his cubism, drawing from imagination are 'artists of different worlds'. They have different painting styles and they paint at exactly opposite times.
The book goes through the works of each in the order one was done as a reacton to the other, sometimes one trying to beat the other at their own style.

CITES:
Baudelaire's essay- 'The Painter of Modern Life'.
Apollinaire's essay on Picasso's work.(also his 'La Poete assasine')
Picasso's play - 'Desire caught by the tail'.
Matisse - 'Notes of a Painter'.

Lucid, Riviting Artist Stories.......2004-07-28

Imagine one tightly written book that can tell you what the art world was like for much of the 20th Century! Jack Flam is the man who did just that in "Matisse Picaso." Then imagine learning all about the lives of Matisse and Picasso and their loves along with their push-pull friendship and competition. After that get the skinny on the paintings both men painted. I never even saw all the -------- in Picasso's paintings. Now, it is hard to see anything else.

I found this book to be much more exciting then typical biographies that include all the boring parts of people's lives. Here you get all the interesting parts with all the boring parts left out. I read every word and recommend the book without reservation. In fact, I believe every art student needs to read this book, every artist, every art affictionado.

Esthetic in braid.......2003-10-04

If this be gossip, then it is the best kind. Engaging account of the rivalry/synergy of Matisse and Picasso and the interactions over half a century, with a Gertrude Stein introit at the beginning. This competition is fairly lightweight stuff as far as I can see although throwing rubber suction darts at a Matisse painting gets close to borderline rascalian--Picasso probably loses points on adolescent misdemeanours, but the art of both leaves us unable to judge, save that a third here could not be found.

Matisse and Picasso by Flam.......2003-09-26

This is an excellent work for art history enthusiasts. It depicts
many famous works of art by Matisse and Picasso. Classically,
Matisse is known for the artful use of color; whereas, Picasso
is credited with the unique form of Cubism which pervades
his artwork. Flam depicts important works by both artists.
For instance, Matisse's "The Woman With The Hat" is shown in
full color. Picasso's "The Acrobat's Family" is depicted
together with "The Two Nudes". These pictures show the emotional side of Picasso's work in contradistinction to
Matisse's exercise of restraint. This book would make a
perfect gift for a friend, relative or art buff.

Excellent Juxtoposition.......2003-06-21

Before there was Andy Warhol, the ultimate in art cool, there was Picasso. And before there was Picasso, there was Matisse. Picasso and his cronies used to make fun of Matisse's primitive style and threw fake darts at Matisse's portrait of his daughter, and people laughed in the salons at Matisse's Joy of Life but no artist influenced Picasso more than Matisse, from his works to his introduction to African and Iberian art, Matisse was one of the few constants in Picasso's life, always keeping the paintings that he had of Matisse. These two heavyweights, more than anybody, have influenced the way we make art today. This books does a great job fleshing out the relationship between these two artists and how they affected each other in a well written and highly accesible format. An excellent book worthy of the excellent artists.

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Picturesque Narration
"Time seems to stop."
Sadly, Byatt Misses The Mark Here
A painting of color
The color of our world

The Matisse Stories
A.S. Byatt
Manufacturer: Vintage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 067976223X
Release Date: 1996-04-30

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These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, intensely observed, The Matisse Stories is fiction of spellbinding authority.

"Full of delight and humor... The Matisse Stories is studded with brilliantly apt images and a fine sense for subtleties of conversation and emotion."--San Francisco Chronicle

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Picturesque Narration .......2006-08-21

You don't have to be an expert on Matisse or of art theory to understand and appreciate this rich collection of three stories by A.S. Byatt. In each story, Byatt frames a scenario with a Matisse painting in such a way that the story is not about the painting itself, but of the characters and they way life is reflected as if looking through a piece of art. The prose is lush in color and texture. Although art and art history are sprinkled throughout, these subjects aren't forced in a dry way and fall naturally into the plot.

The most interesting approach in each story deals with the characters' views of art--whether they be pretentious, curious, critical, objective, or narrow (and how those views can affect others). In the first, "Medusa's Ankles," an elderly woman sits at her hairstylist as the world flashes before her at an increasingly uncomfortable pace and she tries to grasp fragments of her youth--the art is tied in by the paintings on the salon wall. The second, "Art Work," deals with a household of artists at different levels (this one requires patience to begin with, but once pieces start to fall together it's more gripping). The third, "Chinese Lobster," presents two points of view of a sexual harassment scenario within a university art department.

"Time seems to stop.".......2005-10-10

"The Matisse Stories" is a collection of three short stories by A.S. Byatt. Each tale is told from the viewpoint of a female protagonist assigned an unwelcome role in life by circumstance.

In the first story "Medusa's Ankles" Susannah, a middle-aged linguist visits her longtime hairdresser, Lucien. Lucien has become so accustomed to Susannah, that he confides in her about his torrid love affair, and his failing marriage. Aging Susannah "came to trust him with her disintegration", but finds the changes in Lucien's life--and in his salon--both painful and threatening. In this story, Byatt captures the bizarre relationship between a woman and her hairdresser--regular appointments that foster the notion that it's acceptable to confide and gossip, and indulge in the periodic and superficial updates that pass for caring, interested social discourse.

In the second story "Art Work", Debbie, a young married woman who has sacrificed her desires to be an artist, maintains a careful juggling act at home. As a design editor for a magazine, she supports her husband, Robin and their children. Robin works at home producing paintings that fail to sell, and he indulges his art career while he wages a war of silent modes of aggression against the invaluable, loyal housekeeper, the colourful Mrs. Brown. Robin is a failure as an artist and while he obsesses on the purity of colours, his paintings are basically just representations of representations. For example, he paints a glass Wedgwood apple, and a reproduction sauceboat. A startling revelation occurs in the household that causes Debbie to reevaluate her notion of original, inspired art.

In the third and final story, "The Chinese Lobster" Dr. Himmelblau, the elderly Dean of Women Students meets Professor Peregrine Hiss in a Chinese restaurant. A deranged, self-destructive female student has accused Hiss of sexual harassment. Hiss is prepared to fail the student due to the nature of her dissertation--"The Female Body and Matisse." While the story at first seems to evolve around the theme of sexual harassment, Dr. Himmelblau's lunch appointment reveals a far deeper issue.

Byatt writes with a light touch that complements the stories and allows rather dark subject matter to be read with great sympathy for the human condition. It is somewhat unusual for a short story collection to only include three stories, and the tales are so perfect, that I regret there are no more--displacedhuman

Sadly, Byatt Misses The Mark Here.......2005-10-01

In symphonic music, they call the aural equivalent of these stories "tone poems". I'm not sure if there is exactly the right description in literature for what Byatt aimed for here, but I think that analogy works. Byatt hoped, I believe, to cement her stories to Matisse in such a way that her words and these tales would represent in image the vivid colors and expression of Matisse's paintings. None of these three stories really gripped me or lingers well in my memory. I think it's fair to say Byatt was hoping to cast her female characters' views on life as a surrogate for how art itself might be viewed as a reflection of human experience.

A painting of color.......2004-03-28

Henry Matisse's paintings were solid, colorful, and strangely calming to just sit back and look at. A.S. Byatt's "Matisse Stories" have a similar effect (though the effect of Matisse and his artwork only really is established in the third story). A mixed bag of three stories, all focusing on women and Matisse's paintings.

"Medusa's Ankles" introduces us to an aging woman who is drawn into a hair salon by the "rosy nude," a Matisse painting. Her semi-friendship with the hairdresser deteriorates when he leaves his middle-aged wife for a pretty young girlfriend, forcing the woman to face her own aging and life."Art Work" introduces a very artistic couple and their eccentric housekeeper -- who has a few secrets of her own. And "Chinese Lobster" takes on the sobering topic of sexual harrassment, when a young art student files a suit against a visiting professor who is lecturing on Matisse. But it turns out that the student may be the problem...

Matisse is sometimes the center of these stories, but elsewhere you can barely find the poor guy. His paintings -- and the destruction of them -- is the center of "Chinese Lobster." But his art is only a minor part of the other two stories. Byatt's flair for description doesn't fail her now -- she paints vivid, lush descriptions of restaurants, hair salons and past memories. At the same time, she adds small "everyday" touches like live lobsters, little dishes, paints.

While both "Medusa's Ankles" and "Chinese Lobster" are solid, self-contained little stories, "Art Work" is something of a mess. It seems to focus on too many subplots (Debbie's feelings about giving up her work, her husband's artwork) before settling on one. And her descriptions of art galleries and so forth seem rather off, as if she has never tussled with them and isn't sure how it happens.

While "Art Work" bogs down the overall effect somewhat, "Matisse Stories" is a charming little (very little) collection for fans of the French artist. Pretty and sometimes thought-provoking.

The color of our world.......2004-01-12

These three short stories about how women see our world --- the colors they see, the sounds they hear, the thoughts they think-- are truly remarkable for their philosophic depth and their word craftsmanship. In some ways, reading these stories (stories attuned to the everyday details of our lives); stories that describe the ringing of the phone, the belt buckle of the hairdresser; the color of the still-alive lobster in his "cage" with as much, if not more, attention as they do the "big themes" of life, death, and marriage. They are haunting, they are short and crisp and precise. The language flows gracefully and forcefully (though you do not notice the force until later; until you have closed the book).

Book Description

In the brilliant sun of Nice, Henri Matisse painted the brightest, boldest colors he could imagine. Joyfully he painted everywhere and everyone. Enchanted and with a light heart, he painted all the time. This lovely book introduces young readers to the beloved painter Henri Matisse. With delightful illustrations, Le Tord captures the vivid colors of Matisse, and her poetic words sing to the music of his pictures.

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a work of beauty.......2002-09-17

A Bird or two opens your heart, your eyes to the extraordinary colorful work of Matisse. With great insight to his work Bijou Le Tord lets us enter the world of grace of this wonderful, beloved French artist. A must in all libraries, homes, wherever art is loved!

A Bird or Two is strong.......2000-08-20

"I am strong because I do what is in my mind."

It will be a child's recitation of these words that will make parents proud of the purchase of Bijou Le Tord's book, A Bird or Two. A Bird or Two, which is a biography of Heni Matisse, does not simply factualize the life of the famous painter, instead it fleshes him out and gives him spirit, life, and strength. As an introduction to the world of art, Le Tord's book is brilliant.

The book itself is a piece of art, thus it reflects the work of it's hero, Matisse, in a way that facts cannot. In Le Tord's book there lies a well-defined tribute to the famous artist which even the youngest child can grasp and cherish.

Educational and Fun!.......2000-06-22

After attending a Matisse exhibition I was eager to pass on my love for his paintings to my young nephews. This book is so effective in teaching them about the artist that even I learned a couple of things. So,if you're looking for a fun way to introduce young kids to art this book is a good tool. This book will give kids a friendly overview of who Matisse was and what motivated him to paint. It'll also show them "kid versions" of his most famous paintings. It's such a fun book that I recommend it for adults as well

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein: With Two Shorter Stories

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Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein: With Two Shorter Stories
Gertrude Stein
Manufacturer: BiblioBazaar
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1426487061

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Three experimental pieces, written between 1909 and 1912, involved such stylistic devices as repeated variations on a limited set of sentences and phrases, and "word portraits." Includes, in addition to title piece, "A Long Gay Book" and "Many, Many Women." Will be of special interest to students of modernism.

FOUR SHORT STORIES A GREAT STORYTELLER AT HIS BEST

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FOUR SHORT STORIES A GREAT STORYTELLER AT HIS BEST
W. Somerset Maugham
Manufacturer: Hallmark Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JWFKNG

Hello Matisse: Get to Know Matisse through Stories, Games and Draw-It-Yourself Fun

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Hello Matisse: Get to Know Matisse through Stories, Games and Draw-It-Yourself Fun
Catherine de Duve
Manufacturer: Birdcage Press
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ASIN: 1599600013

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Discover why people were shocked by Matisse's paintings and called him a wild animal. Find the birds and sea creatures in his cut out art, and make your own collages.

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Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories
Gertrude Stein
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NP6VT6

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