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Submit your artistic reflection!
Many female artists from all over the world have created many art pieces to express themselves and to interact with everyone else in this diverse community. As a universal way of expression, art allows every woman to convey her messages to the world regardless of her race, age, or religion. Different skin colors do not prevent female artists from creating art; on the other hand, the diversity of art provides every creative woman a space to communicate with the outside world in many artistic ways.
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Kate Greenaway (1846 - 1901)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1888
In The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
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Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943)
Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny, 1909
In The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter
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Kate Greenaway was a British writer and illustrator whose work focused mainly on pieces for children. Through her illustrations, she even influenced children's fashion in London during the 1880s and 1890s! Today, the UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals gives the presitigious Kate Greenaway Medal to a children's illustrator each year.
Learn more about Kate at Wikipedia. |
Many people are familiar with the work of Beatrix Potter, including her most famous - The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The famous British illustrator and author started her career by sketching her pets as a young girl, and animals are the primary characters in most of her works. Beatrix was also very interested in science and preserving the environment and became well-respected in England for her work with fungi and algae!
Learn more about Beatrix at Wikipedia. |
Both of these illustrations are from children's stories. One is a depiction of the fairytale The Pied Piper and the other is from The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, a children's book. What do you like about each illustration, and where can you see each illustrator's imagination at work? What kind of effects do the colors create? Based on these pictures, which story would you rather be in?
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