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An 8 page research paper that discusses, summaries and analyzes the career and art of children’s book author/illustrator Maurice Sendak. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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childrens classics as Where the Wild Things Are (Greene, 2005). Biography: Sendak was raised in within a Brooklyn community of Eastern European Jews and spent his childhood absorbing the
art of Mickey Mouse cartoon, as well as different aspects of Germanic culture, such as the art associated with the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm (Greene, 2005). As this
suggests, the influences on Sendaks art cover a broad range. He expresses his artistic vision in a variety of media, "from watercolor and drawings, to set and costume design" (Greene,
2005 p. 10). Fitzsimmons (2007) points out that Where the Wild Things Are is part of trilogy, which includes In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There. While both Wild
Things and Night Kitchen are usually dark for childrens books, Outside Over There is even more so. In all three books, Sendak drew on his own childhood memories to shape
themes and images. For example, in Outside Over There, Sendak references the abduction of the Charles Lindbergh baby in 1932 (Fitzsimmons, 2007). Themes: The scope of Sendaks style was
exemplified by the Jewish Museum exhibition, which featured 140 works, including original drawings, as well as "artwork for posters, theatrical sets, and costumes created from Sendaks designs" (Greene, 2005, p.
10). The first section of this exhibition was entitled "The Old Country" and featured the Eastern European familial ties that are featured in the watercolors from Where the Wild
Things Are. In these paintings, Sendak was influenced by his "overbearing and zealous relatives," who are "caricaturized as monsters who eat all the food in sight" (Greene, 2005, p. 10).
Sendak has indicated that the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are were inspired by his childhood memories of his "large, fat Jewish relatives" (Lindow, 2006, p. 445). Sendak uses
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