A review by bhavani
World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from the Metropolitan Museum by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Metropolitan Museum of Art the
4.0
My favourite paintings and poetry combo by page number, beginning to end:
1) Mada Primavesi (1912-1913), Gustav Klimt - Paint Me, Marilyn Singer
2) Dancing in Colombia (1980), Fernando Botero - Dancing, Alma Flor Ada
3) Skeletons as artisans (ca. 1890-1910), Jose Guadalupe Posada - Ti-ki-ri, ti-ki-ri, ti-ki-ri, tas!, Guadalupe Garcia McCall
4) The Horse Fair (1852-1855), Rosa Bonheur - Resistance, Cynthia Cotten
5) Untitled (Studio), 2014, Kerry James Marshall - Studio, Marilyn Nelson
6) Kinryusan Temple at Asakusa, 1856, Utagawa Hiroshige - Walking to Temple, Janet Wong
Paintings I find attractive:
1) Young Mother Sewing (1900), Mary Cassatt
2) Cat Watching a Spider (ca. 1888-1892), Oide Toko
3) The Repast of the Lion (ca. 1907), Henri Rousseau
4) The Elephant Clock (1315), Artist Unknown
Poems that speak to me:
1) Young Ashoka Sundari
2) Ann Whitford Paul
1) Mada Primavesi (1912-1913), Gustav Klimt - Paint Me, Marilyn Singer
2) Dancing in Colombia (1980), Fernando Botero - Dancing, Alma Flor Ada
3) Skeletons as artisans (ca. 1890-1910), Jose Guadalupe Posada - Ti-ki-ri, ti-ki-ri, ti-ki-ri, tas!, Guadalupe Garcia McCall
4) The Horse Fair (1852-1855), Rosa Bonheur - Resistance, Cynthia Cotten
5) Untitled (Studio), 2014, Kerry James Marshall - Studio, Marilyn Nelson
6) Kinryusan Temple at Asakusa, 1856, Utagawa Hiroshige - Walking to Temple, Janet Wong
Paintings I find attractive:
1) Young Mother Sewing (1900), Mary Cassatt
2) Cat Watching a Spider (ca. 1888-1892), Oide Toko
3) The Repast of the Lion (ca. 1907), Henri Rousseau
4) The Elephant Clock (1315), Artist Unknown
Poems that speak to me:
1) Young Ashoka Sundari
2) Ann Whitford Paul