5/9/2023 0 Comments Migrant by Maxine Trottier![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the nearly wordless “Hip Hop Wish,” a frog inadvertently rubs a magic lamp and finds itself saddled with an importunate genie eager to shower it with inappropriate goods and riches. Lachenmeyer freely borrows familiar folkloric elements, subjecting them to mildly comical twists. The theme of persistence (for better or worse) links four tales of magic, trickery, and near disasters. A fanciful and romantic story, vibrantly painted, providing children an opportunity to think about the making of art, the making of gender roles, and the making of history. Piero is an invention, but Marietta was real, an accomplished artist who died in childbirth at age 34. East’s beautiful paintings range from near-photographic representations of the streets and canals of Venice to dreamlike visions where Marietta and Piero’s faces glow in a luminous landscape of ships, flora, and fauna. So she gives him her paint box and her boat so he can return to his family. The two discover their mutual delight in drawing, but Marietta realizes that Piero will never have a chance to be an artist if he sets sail again. A sea captain comes to Tintoretto to have his portrait painted, and Marietta notices the captain’s slave boy, Piero, sketching on the street below. In this story, Marietta loves her father’s gift of a box of paints, brushes, and chalks. The Venetian Renaissance painter Tintoretto had a daughter named Marietta, whom he dressed in boy’s clothing so she could accompany him freely. ![]()
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