Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Paintings that Smile »

One of the Impressionist era's best-loved painters, Pierre-Auguste Renoirpainted every day for 60 years—that's over 5,000 paintings! The joie de vivre expressed in his work is reflected on every page of Smart About Art: Pierre-Auguste Renoir in colorful, dynamic illustrations and 17 reproductions. With humor and insight, this title takes us through the life of an artist who at first was so unpopular that his paintings were attacked with umbrellas. Written as if it were a child's own class report, this title is sure to draw new young fans to Renoir's paintings.

Author Bio: True Kelley lives in New Hampshire. She wrote and illustrated two titles in the Smart About Art series: Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules and Claude Monet: Sunshine and Waterlilies.

Publishers Weekly

The latest entry in the paper-over-board Smart About Art series, begins with the narrator relating the painter's Young Girls at the Piano (1892) to the child's own experience of a piano lesson, before launching into a concise overview of the painter's life. The child's eye-view makes the dramatic changes on the art scene comprehensible to young readers, for instance, when the narrator contrasts the subjects of "olde style artists" with "new style artists" on a spread. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.