Today art has no specific guidelines. Looking at
the grid paintings by Agnes Martin, to the screen prints, sculptures and
linocuts in ink of Elizabeth Catlett, everything expressed in colour and
through the mind is considered art.
Leonora Carrington used kitchen supplies mixed with pigment to create
what was seen as magnificent art.
In Women
Artists A to Z, French-born, Australian artist Mirka Mora heads the
alphabetical parade of magnificent women that brought their creative genius to
the world.
Her artistic talent encompasses paintings of coloured visions of
nature, animals, cherubs, people, and our external and internal world.
This diverse assembly of women artists from all countries and of all races introduce their varied and unusual talents. They share their use of all kinds of media, techniques, colours, objects and materials to create stories, artwork, styles and methods.
Who would have thought that red dots of all sizes
on walls, trees, clothes and body would
keep Yayoi Kasuma in the public eye for more than fifty years?
This is a brilliant selection of artistic
expression. Children ( and adults) can learn from the different media and be
inspired to express their own imagination and creativity in a similar or
perhaps, their own individual style.
From blocks of colour, the use of marble and natural
recycled materials used artistically, call attention to our environment. Items
of pottery, and quilts woven by the quilting circles of African American women
are displayed in museums. Frida Kahlo’s bold, thick colourful lines in her
self-portraits were drawn to keep alive her heritage.
Whether it is a veiled garment, a floral
expression, photography, yarn-based art weavers or imaginative wood carvings,
this book will excite and educate.
At the end, there are four pages of author’s notes
on the artists, with a miniature image of them to refer to. It includes a
question to answer which engages the reader further and which reinforces who
they are reading about.
Title:
Women Artists A to Z
Author:
Melanie LaBarge
Illustrator:
Caroline Corrigan
Publisher:
Penguin Random House, $24.99
Publication
Date: 18 February 2020
Format:
Hardcover
ISBN:
9781760896317
For
ages: 8+
Type:
Educational/Non-fiction Picture Book
