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Indepth Arts News:
"TELL ME A PICTURE: An exhibition selected by Quentin Blake"
2001-02-14 until 2001-06-17
National Gallery
London, ,
UK United Kingdom
The Children's Laureate and distinguished illustrator Quentin Blake has
assembled an alphabetical anthology of twenty-six pictures, to encourage
younger visitors to engage with a wide range of striking and imaginative
images and to wonder what the stories might be. The works include paintings
from the National Gallery's collection, among them Piero di Cosimo's A Satyr
mourning over a Nymph and Uccello's Saint George and the Dragon, as well as
20th-century works by Jack Yeats, Edward Hopper, Ken Kiff and Paula Rego,
and book illustrators John Burningham, Michael Foreman and Roberto
Innocenti.
Mysterious, exciting, touching and sometimes disturbing, they
are all distinguished by their pictorial inventiveness. Quentin Blake, who
is widely known for his illustrations to the books of Roald Dahl, has won an
international reputation for his own quirky and humorous drawings, and the
book accompanying the exhibition is richly illustrated by him.
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