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Walter Crane

Walter Crane was children’s book author and illustrator in the 19^th century. His art style was influenced by Japanese wood blocks and colour prints as he was studying wood engraving. Crane’s style is more towards rich colour and decorative. (AbeBooks.com, n.d.).


Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak, the legendary children books author. Most of his artwork was influenced by his childhood; it was filled in grief and horror as his extended family was killed during The Holocaust. It affected him a lot and he started to isolate himself to others. When he was twelve, his family and him went to see Fantasia and it cast very deep influences in him so he decided to become an illustrator after the movie ended.  (Famous Authors, n.d.) Compared to Crane’s fantasy based story, Sendak’s story based is much darker. “I refuse to lie to children, I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.” Says Sendak. (Brockes, 2011)

most of Sendak’s painting, he used a lot of pale colours, such as light ­­­­pink, light brown and also light green.

Dr Seuss

Dr Seuss was a popular avant-garde children book’s artist, and also a very successful businessperson that affected most part of the American mass culture. For example, he gained fames for his Flit bugs spay advertising campaigns “Quick Henry, the Fliti!” during the 20s and 30s. (Druker, Kümmerling-Meibauer, n.d.) He often used avant-garde method in his illustration and storytelling. The purpose is to encourage children to see outside the mental limits obligatory by their culture. (Mason, 2004)

Dr Seuss mostly used pen and ink to create his artworks. He credited his mother as the first inspiration, the rhymes that his mother chanted to her children became the desire and affection in Dr Seuss to create rhymes. His childhood had influence on the way he writes as can be observe in his artwork. In the World War II era, Dr Seuss turned his works towards the political cartoons. He worked for the New York’s daily newspaper, PM, and he had drawn over 400 cartoons for the newspaper (Famous Authors, n.d.).  He a also helped in the Frank Capra’s Signal Corps, making movie for the U.S. Army, and also animated film series presenting the character “Private Snafu.” (Independent Lens, n.d.)

Reference

AbeBooks.com (n.d.) The Illustration of Walter Crane. [online] Available at: http://www.abebooks.com/books/rare-illustration-nursery-rhymes-art-picture/walter-crane.shtml [Accessed: 15 July 2016]

Druker, E, Kümmerling-Meibauer, B. (n.d) Chilren’s Literature and the Avant-Garde. [online] Available at https://books.google.com.my/books?id=TlwwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=how+avant+garde+influence+children+book&source=bl&ots=yxCj9pIqD2&sig=dOxcCH8JyqZeUS5qLh2sVAItiYs&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=foucault&f=false  [Accessed: 6 August 2016]

Mason,I.G. (2004) The rise of Seussim. [online] Available at: http://www3.sympatico.ca/ian.g.mason/Seuss.htm [Accessed: 20 July 2016]

Famous Authors. (n.d.) Dr. Seuss. [online] Available at: http://www.famousauthors.org/dr-seuss [Accessed: 20 July 2016]

Famous Authors. (n.d.) Maurice Sandak. [online] Available at: http://www.famousauthors.org/maurice-sendak [Accessed: 20 July 2016]

Brockes, M. (2011) Maurice Sendak: ‘I refused to lie to children. The Guardian [online] Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/avant-garde [Accessed: 7 July 2016]

Independent Lens (n.d.)The Political Dr.Seuss. About Dr.Seuss. [online] Available at: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/politicaldrseuss/dr.html [Accessed: 20 July 2016]