"A delightful picture book based on the true story of Rosa Bonheur, the nineteenth-century French artist who defied gender expectations and changed the art world with her realistic animal paintings."-- "Rosa Bonheur loved to draw animals. She was good at it too! Unfortunately, in nineteenth-century France, girls were not allowed to be artists. But Rosa didn't let that stop her. In this fictionalized account of her early life in Paris, Rosa studies...

Alice Ernestine Prin, often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist model, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. At age 12, she first worked in shops and bakeries, but by the age of fourteen, she was posing nude for sculptors, which created discord with her mother. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the early 1920's. A painter in her own right, in 1927 Prin had a sold-out exhibition of her...

Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Claude Monet. Includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.

Describes the development of Cezanne's techniques for creating landscapes, still-lifes, and figure studies, and discusses influences on his work.

In 1949 an abstract painter named Jacques Villeglé ripped a large batch of torn posters off a billboard in the boulevard du Montparnasse, mounted them on a canvas, and proclaimed it Art. Over the next six decades, this poster thief collected more than four thousand works from the streets of Paris. 'In seizing a poster, I seize history," said the ninety-five-year-old artist recently. "What I gather is the reflection of an era."-- page 2 of cover.

Linnea has been in Paris. And she has visited the painter Claude Monet's garden! She even stood on the same little Japanese bridge that Monet painted so often in his pictures. In Paris, Linnea got to see many of the real paintings. Now she can understand what it means to be called an Impressionist, and she knows a lot about Monet's life in the pink house where he lived with his eight children. --from Amazon.