CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Spatial Art and Literature

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

1. Mackie and the Owl

    Until I captured the scary creature

     with paint brush on the wall,

where kids could talk to and touch; 

                                   now the owl is a friend to all.

Dr Abe V Rotor

Mackie poses before a wall mural painted by the 

author at her home in Lagro QC 2015

Mackie used to be afraid of the owl,

     imagined or on the screen.

and would fling into embrace blind

     until it is no longer seen.

The creature would appear in the dark,

     in her favorite cartoon;

by its hooting in the hollow of a tree,

     she would freeze like stone.

Until I captured the scary creature

     with paint brush on the wall,

where kids could talk to and touch; 

     now the owl is a friend to all. ~

2. The World in his Paint Brush

Markus 2 author's grandson paints a mural 2015, QC

"Freedom in imagination, young as he is, while grownups yearn for expression outside the confines of art; who is the master then? Yet, the path that he takes is rough and uncertain, sans model and determination he'll miss his aim." - A V Rotor

"Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality." - Oscar Wilde

"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression." - Henri Matisse

3. "Nature is a world of reality and fantasy."- avr

Details of Mural by Dr Abe V Rotor

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter." - Rachel Carson

Wish the animals are alive and tame.

 

They never saw the animals in the wild;

no, not in the concrete jungle of the city;

save a visit to the zoo, images on TV,

it's a world of reality and fantasy.

"I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." 

- Anne Frank

White Doves Meet the Sun - a Forest Scene.

Morning comes late in the forest,

and evening comes early;

So with creatures at play or rest

 in their leisure and play. 

"My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature."

 - Claude Monet