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Meet my Favorite Artist:

Meet my Favorite Artist:. Theodore (Ted) Suess Geisel. Born:. March 02, 1904. Died:. December 04,1991. Hometown:. Springfield, Massachusetts. Known for:. Children’s Books. Some Artworks You Might Know:. Hop on Pop Hand-pulled Lithograph on Archival paper Dr. Seuss hated when

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Meet my Favorite Artist:

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  1. Meet my Favorite Artist:

  2. Theodore (Ted) Suess Geisel Born: March 02, 1904 Died: December 04,1991 Hometown: Springfield, Massachusetts Known for: Children’s Books

  3. Some Artworks You Might Know: Hop on Pop Hand-pulled Lithograph on Archival paper Dr. Seuss hated when his works were called “Whimsical.”

  4. Some Artworks You Might Know: Horton Hears A Who Hand-pulled lithograph on Archival paper Sometimes Dr. Seuss didn’t choose his colors, the publishers told him what they had available.

  5. Some Artworks You Might Know: The Cat In The Hat(A Game That I Call Up-Up-Up With A Fish) Hand-pulled lithograph on archival paper Horton Hears a Who, Yertle the Turtle, The Sneetches, The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, and The Butter Battle Book were also political statements.

  6. Some Artworks You Probably Don't Know: Economic Situation Clarified Hand-pulled Serigraph on Paper And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street was his first book. A Plethora of Cats Hand-pulled serigraph on canvas

  7. Some Artworks You Probably Don't Know: And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street was rejected 27 times before publishing. Relaxed In Spite Of It Hand-Pulled Serigraph on Coventry Rag Paper

  8. Some Artworks You Probably Don't Know: Tower of Babel Hand-pulled Serigraphon Archival Panel Houghton Mifflin and Random House asked Dr. Seuss to write a children’s primer using 220 new-reader vocabulary words; the end result was The Cat in the Hat.

  9. Other Media Artworks: Two Horned Drouberhannis Hand-painted cast resin sculpture Dr. Seuss got the horns and beaks from his Dad who worked at a zoo. Andulovian Grackler Hand-painted cast resin sculpture

  10. Other Media Artworks: Dr. Seuss invented the word ‘Nerd.’ Advertisements

  11. Other Media Artworks: Dr. Seuss also worked on Political films during WWII where he met animator Chuck Jones (How the Grinch stole Christmas, Bugs Bunny) Political Cartoons

  12. In Conclusion: Dr. Seuss made many valuable contributions to Art, not only with his children’s books but with his other works.

  13. 1.When you look at book illustrations, do you look at them as ART ? Why or Why not ? 2. Are Dr. Seuss's advertisements and political cartoons ART? Why or Why not? 3.Why do you think that Dr. Seuss’s Sculpture pieces are not as well known as his illustrations? 4. Pretend that you have to describe your favorite piece of art by Dr. Seuss, that you saw in this presentation, to a friend. How would you describe it without saying the title? (Hint: what colors are used? What is the image of? Where are the characters located in the picture?) Thinking Questions

  14. Pictures from: www.seusseville.com www.seussentenial.com www.tfilms.com

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