Essays on Jerry Pinkney

Across his journey of fifty years as an artist, Pinkney has succeeded in viewing the world from a different and better perspective and coming up with outstanding images that reveal his love for life, race, community and culture. His works of art offer a significant proof that good acts, no matter how minute are never a waste when displayed in beautiful images (Llanas 45). Initially created for product advertisements, greeting cards, covers and pages of periodicals, postage stamps and well-travelled historic sites, Jerry’s have also been displayed in more than one hundred illustrated books. One of the most ...

Question #1

The book “the lion and the mouse” is a wordless picture book with the adaptation of one of the Aesop’s fables. This book was written and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney in the year 2009. It is a very educative and creative book by Jerry Pinkney meant for young children. The book is done in such a way that the only words written in it are for the sound effects to guide the readers. The illustrations are done beautifully in the book that there is no need for words to explain what is going on in the book. This book can ...

Iron Pour

This event was presented by Arts at GSU on 14th of December of the year 2013.The location of this event was GSU’Ss sculpture studio. The George state university prepared the event where the students and the community watched the sculpture as it is created. The artists demonstrated their skills and expertise in sculpture making. The members of the community were also present in the event demonstrating their sculptures. The scratch and moulds were available in the event for the students and members of the general public to buy. The event also involving molting the iron as well ...