If you accompany your child to read picture books, you probably know him. He is a master of picture books, a real master. He is the winner of four Cadillac awards in the United States and a prolific genius. Let's look at his resume first.
American master painter Leo Lionni is also the author of Little Black Fish, Little Blue and Yellow, Village Worm and Voldemort.
He is a brilliant and unconstrained artistic genius, proficient in painting, sculpture, graphic design, printing, ceramics and photography. ...
Leo Leoni is good at combining pictures with large color blocks and various graphics, which makes his works look very fresh and simple, but also very interesting.
Besides bringing us visual enjoyment, every story of Leo Leoni also contains profound truth. Some people say that every story of Leo Leoni is a fable, from which we can see many things: the warmth of friendship, the preciousness of keeping personality and the beauty of dreams. ......
Italy is Leo Leoni's second hometown.
He set foot on this land at the age of 15. Before that, he went to middle school in Philadelphia, USA. Before that, he lived in his hometown-Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In Italy, he completed his studies and obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of Genoa with a paper on jewelry trade. Although he is better at painting and design, it is not difficult to finish this kind of paper because his father thinks that jewelry designers are also Hispanic Jews.
In Italy, Leo Leoni began his career as an artist and designer.
When the Nazis controlled Italy, Leo Lionni, who was half a Jew, had to leave with his wife and children and live in the United States across the ocean, where his career made amazing achievements. About twenty years later, he decided to return to Italy to settle down again, as if that was his hometown.
Although Leonie was 49 years old when he started to create picture books, he started a new era of picture books. The New York Times once praised him like this: "If picture books are a new visual art of our time, then Leo Leoni is the master of this style."
His picture books have won numerous awards, among which One Inch Worm, Little Black Fish, Afo the vole and Alexander and the Clockwork Mouse are named 196 1, 1964, 1968 and1977 respectively. 1999101,the master of picture books known as "the color magician", died in Italy at the age of 89.
Leo Leoni's writing style is actually very elegant. Editors praised it as "Aesop of the 20th century", praised his writing as concise, clear and poetic, in addition to his profound stories.
Although his picture book text can be directly understood or understood by children, it is not the kind of tone specially for children, because his story is for everyone.
Repeatedly pondering the seemingly simple words written by Leo Leoni is actually very old-fashioned, more like European English than American English. Its grammatical norms are exemplary and its words are very unique. It seems that he does not naturally choose some commonly used words, but tends to choose some words that are more original, interesting and symbolic.
If you know Leonie, it's probably because you've seen his Buddha of the vole. The Buddha of the vole is also my favorite character. In the universal definition of success, the Buddha of Microvole is undoubtedly a loser, but he is also a Microvole who can best understand happiness and happiness. He also passed on his happiness to others. Who can say that such a little vole is not another kind of happiness?