the ultimate art museum by ferren gipson

Growing up, her family had a workshop repairing and selling tapestries, and Bourgeois would assist with making little repairs. The recurring spider theme in her work was inspired, in part, by her childhood. Bourgeois created this spindly steel sculpture to go in the Turbine Hall at the opening of Tate Modern in 2000. Maman is not in The Ultimate Art Museum, but it is very similar to Spider, which is in the Contemporary Sculpture Gallery of the book. When she died in 2012, she was the last living artist from the original Surrealist movement. In the later stages of her career, her paintings became more abstract, and she created soft sculptures and installations that harked back to her earlier Surrealist work. At the start of her career, she created whimsical figurative paintings that show women and girls in unusual situations as they work through issues relating to womanhood and sexuality. She grew up with a love of gothic novels, which had an influence on the development of her often dark and mysterious style. He also angles the lines on the ground to look like they are going into the distance.'ĭorothea Tanning's Eine Kleine Nachtmusikĭorothea Tanning was a writer and self-taught artist, best known for her Surrealist work. He tried to achieve it by making the rectangular patches of greenery pinch together as they move towards the background.

Paolo Uccello (1397–1475) The National Gallery, Londonįrom The Ultimate Art Museum: ' Paolo Uccello was also a keen mathematician, interested in learning how to use perspective in paintings to make them more realistic. He told them he'd slay the dragon for them if they converted to Christianity, which they promptly did. When George came upon a princess who was next in line to be sacrificed as the dragon's dinner, he rescued her and led the dragon to the city's residents. A dragon was terrorising the people in the city of Silene, eating their animals and then their children. This painting shows a scene from the story of Saint George, a knight from present-day Turkey. Paolo Uccello's Saint George and the Dragon Here's a small selection of artworks from The Ultimate Art Museum that you can visit at a British institution…

As readers flip through the wings and galleries of this book, they are introduced to art from around the world, but there are quite a few paintings and objects in the book that can be found in real-life museums in the UK.

This labour of love is a museum-in-a-book written for young readers (around 8–14 years old), covering 40,000 years of art across more than 300 images.

The ultimate art museum by ferren gipson