Dragons Love Art

An absolute feast for the eyes, Dragons Love Art offers a unique visual tour of the many ideas, styles, and media of the world’s art history. Matched with informative and educational passages detailing the specifics of each examined age of art, this book is a treasure trove of artistic forms and historical expressions.

In a book about art, it’s no surprise that the illustrations are the biggest standout. Using mosaic collages that are certain to captivate onlookers of all ages, author and illustrator Stephen Parlato has created awe-inspiring double-paged dragon images inlaid with distinctly different styles of art. Starting with Stone Age carvings and paintings on rocks, readers are whisked away on a diverse and fantastic art adventure showcasing cultural, historical, and social styles of art, including coin engravings, molten glass, still-life paintings, and graffiti murals. Parlato is to be applauded not only for his gorgeous renderings but also for including both popular and well-known art, like that of Vincent Van Gogh, as well as lesser-known styles including orphism and the often maligned comic art.

Dragons Love Art, with its embossed cover, is an unquestionable “must-have” not only for classroom and library shelves but also for art lovers of all ages. This is a book that will be well-read and well-loved. It will inform and inspire - to both appreciate art and to create it. As the final page puts forth, the most lovely art to look at is that which readers will be inspired to create after closing the book.