Eric Carle, world-renowned children’s author and illustrator, has touched the hearts, minds, and lives of millions of dedicated readers all over the world, including mine. Growing up, Eric Carle’s books were a staple in our home. My mom and dad have read, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” and “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” to me more times than I can recount. What I loved and still admire the most about Carle’s work is not his words, or story lines, but his illustrations. Though born in 1929, in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved with his parents to Germany. He attended school in Germany and graduated from the esteemed art school, “The Akademie der bildenden Kunste.” After graduation, Carle moved back to America in 1952 where
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This advertisement agency position served as the launching pad for the rest of Carle’s career. Carle had drawn a picture of a red lobster for one of his advertisements. This red lobster grabbed the attention of Bill Martin JR, an educator and author (Carle, n.d.). Martin reached out to Carle, and this pairing birthed the well-known children’s book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” This storybook brought to life a hidden dream from within. As a result, Carle soon began to write and illustrate his own books entirely. The first book that was entirely his was, “1,2,3, to the Zoo,” followed by, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (Carle, n.d.). Carle’s artistic style is creating his pictures by using a collage technique. He uses papers that are hand painted and cuts them. He shapes them to form lively and cheery images that capture the attention and hearts of his readers. His artistic style also is unparalleled in the fact that his illustrations incorporate different dimensions such as flickering lights and pictures that have sounds accompanying them, producing a toy-like book that …show more content…
I remember how his artwork captured the attention of my mind and senses. I often pleaded with my parents to read me his stories again and again so that I could stare deeply at his painted caterpillars, bears, and crickets. His work interests me because it is so unlike other illustrations in children’s books that I have seen. It is so beautiful to me how he takes his personal time to paint and structure his own characters himself, with his own two hands. Most illustrators use more traditional ways such as pencils, paints, or computerized programs. The fact that this man, piece by piece, glues his hand-painted tissue paper together to create something magical for the sake of children has always resonated with me. Eric Carle’s work reflects artistic creativity because his illustrations portray what other illustrations do not. His creativity blooms from his own mind, his own inventive thinking to paint tissue paper and then glue them together into collages that he then shapes into complex animals and figures. He uses multiple forms of art such as paints, tissue paper, and textures, and is able to so outstandingly design a creature that arouses warmness within his readers and portrays lifelike qualities. This is artistic creativity. He undergoes a lengthy process in order to bring to life an original product that is memorable. So memorable, in fact, that I, 21 years later,
This advertisement agency position served as the launching pad for the rest of Carle’s career. Carle had drawn a picture of a red lobster for one of his advertisements. This red lobster grabbed the attention of Bill Martin JR, an educator and author (Carle, n.d.). Martin reached out to Carle, and this pairing birthed the well-known children’s book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” This storybook brought to life a hidden dream from within. As a result, Carle soon began to write and illustrate his own books entirely. The first book that was entirely his was, “1,2,3, to the Zoo,” followed by, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” (Carle, n.d.). Carle’s artistic style is creating his pictures by using a collage technique. He uses papers that are hand painted and cuts them. He shapes them to form lively and cheery images that capture the attention and hearts of his readers. His artistic style also is unparalleled in the fact that his illustrations incorporate different dimensions such as flickering lights and pictures that have sounds accompanying them, producing a toy-like book that …show more content…
I remember how his artwork captured the attention of my mind and senses. I often pleaded with my parents to read me his stories again and again so that I could stare deeply at his painted caterpillars, bears, and crickets. His work interests me because it is so unlike other illustrations in children’s books that I have seen. It is so beautiful to me how he takes his personal time to paint and structure his own characters himself, with his own two hands. Most illustrators use more traditional ways such as pencils, paints, or computerized programs. The fact that this man, piece by piece, glues his hand-painted tissue paper together to create something magical for the sake of children has always resonated with me. Eric Carle’s work reflects artistic creativity because his illustrations portray what other illustrations do not. His creativity blooms from his own mind, his own inventive thinking to paint tissue paper and then glue them together into collages that he then shapes into complex animals and figures. He uses multiple forms of art such as paints, tissue paper, and textures, and is able to so outstandingly design a creature that arouses warmness within his readers and portrays lifelike qualities. This is artistic creativity. He undergoes a lengthy process in order to bring to life an original product that is memorable. So memorable, in fact, that I, 21 years later,