Brit a nnic a LEARNING LIBRARY Artists Around the World Meet some of the greatest artists of all time CHICAGO LONDON NEW DELHI PARIS SEOUL SYDNEY TAIPEI TOKYO
Van Gogh’s paintings of sunflowers are probably some of the most famous paintings in the world You may even have seen them on T-shirts and coffee mugs This is a photo of an original painted in 1889 Christie’s Images Corbis
Artists Around the World TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 VISUAL ARTS CHINA Xia Gui Lonely Landscapes 6 EGYPT Hassan Fathy Culture-Conscious Architect 8 ITALY Michelangelo Genius of European Art 10 MEXICO Frida Kahlo The Brilliant Colors of Mexico 12 THE NETHERLANDS Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers and Starry Nights 14 SPAIN Francisco de Goya Painter to the King and to the People 16 Pablo Picasso Exploring with an Artist 18 LITERATURE ARGENTINA Jorge Luis Borges Creator of Fantastical Fictions 20 AUSTRALIA Kath Walker Aboriginal Poet 22 CHILE Isabel Allende The Letter Writer’s Stories 24 ENGLAND Charles Dickens Writer of Life-Changing Stories 26 FRANCE Jules Verne Journey to Everywhere 28 INDIA Rabindranath Tagore Poet Laureate of India 30 JAPAN Basho HaikuMaster 32 NIGERIA Wole Soyinka The Nobel Laureate 34 UNITED STATES Emily Dickinson A Life of Letters and Literature 36 Gwendolyn Brooks Prized Poet of Illinois 38 Mark Twain The Writer and the Mississippi River 40 PERFORMING ARTS AUSTRIA Fanny Elssler Theatrical Ballerina 42 FRANCE Sarah Bernhardt The Divine Sarah 44 GERMANY Ludwig van Beethoven Living for Music 46 INDIA Ravi Shankar Music at His Fingertips 48 JAPAN Akira Kurosawa A Vision in Motion 50 NEW ZEALAND Kiri Te Kanawa New Zealand’s Opera Star 52 PAKISTAN Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Center Stage of Qawwali 54 UNITED STATES Alvin Ailey Enriching American Dance 56 Louis Armstrong Satchmo Jazz Superstar 58 Jim Henson Muppet Master 60 GLOSSARY 62 INDEX 63 Brit a nnic a LEARNING LIBRARY
