The Artists

On an autumn afternoon Anna meets a large grey cat with shining yellow eyes. Together they embark on a journey that is all about special friendship and the magic of creating art. A tribute to the painter Balthus, the King of Cats, and to his mysterious world: a place filled with mirrors, cats and girls. This book is both in italian and english language.

This time the rhymes are not combined with famous paintings (as it was for "Art in Ryhmes") but with drawings and artworks on paper, made by ancient and contemporary artists. The rhymes help the reader playing and going on with linguistic inventions. Each artwork becomes a moment to use curiosity and imagination.

"We always look at the world with distracted eyes, considering all the object around us meaningless or without interest. This book let us meet Calder, an artist that was able to play and invent with common materials, turning things without life in “kinetic” artworks. Official book of the Calder Exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome."

Mondrian wanted to show that the essence of the world can be caught in a better way through the abstract painting (and not through the figurative one). Alessandro Sanna picks this “real vision” up and shows us Mondrian’s poetic spirit and view with his refined illustration. This book is a journey among this painter’s figures and abstractions, showed in a simple and essential way. Winner of the Andersen Award 2006 as Best Art Book.

This game starts with someone who enjoys turning into a prince, an old man or a child and someone else who is drawing the different characters. And in this way, playing and watching, you can discover how each detail, even the tiniest touch of light in the eyes, communicates a message.

This precious slipcase contains three little books (13x13 cm) and tells children about the mysterious shapes of Lucio Saffaro, who was an artist, a writer and a mathematician. Each book is enriched by thirteen drawings.

This is the third book of Marco Dallari’s trilogy about art and rhymes. This time the book focuses on portraits and “art faces”, suggesting a new way of watching art masterpieces, which become moments of amused discovery.

The “Titian red” is a particular warm and elegant shade of red. Its name is due to the famous Italian artist of the XVI° century. This book let us discover something more about this mysterious painter, with a funny and suggestive path through the palette.

This is a little mystery book about the adventure of a young resourceful boy that deals with murky circumstances. The story is always between reality and imagination; it was inspired by Velàzquez’s masterpiece Las Meninas, which is the key to disclose this little mystery.