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Let the wild rumpus start! Celebrating Maurice Sendak on what would've been his 94th birthday. This anecdote about a young fan eating Sendak's drawing is one for the books. #WildThing
“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak (born this day, June 10, 1928), Where the Wild Things Arex
"It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things."
- Maurice Sendak, whose birthday is today
"#Art has always been my salvation."
✒️ #MauriceSendak, American author and illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are), was #BOTD 10 June 1928. #Literature #Illustration
Like many people, I grew up with Maurice Sendak and loved "Where The Wild Things Are". I enjoyed pulling these ones together. #midjourney #AiArt
There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.
Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are
#BookWormSat✨
#GoshBFDD final round Where The Wild Things Art a tribute to The great Maurice Sendak. Enjoyed all the drawings from you wild things @brokenfrontier @GoshComics
10 years ago, this weekend…I was commissioned by the mighty #Primus to create artwork for their NY show.
Maurice Sendak & #MCA had both just passed…so I had to say my thing.
#jermainerogers
#posters #art #gigposters #illustration #nft #veve #designervinyl #streetart #popart
Maurice Sendak on Randolph Caldecott: '[He] is an illustrator, he is a songwriter, he is a choreographer, he is a stage manager, he is a decorator, he is a theatre person, he's superb, simply.'
Sendak: 'Many of the artists who influenced me were illustrators I accidentally came upon.'
I wonder, Twitterers, whether you know these artists that inspired Sendak?
Finished my final assignment from my concept and storytelling class this semester! Had to do a take/redesign of Where the Wild Things Are and I ended up going in a more creepy/goofy direction I suppose ha (last 2 images for comparison from book by Maurice Sendak)
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Another favourite writer of Maurice Sendak was William Blake. 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience' tell you all about this: what it is to be a child - not childish, but a child inside your adult self - and how much better a person you are for being such.'
Sendak: In the Night Kitchen 'When I was a child there was an advertisement which I remember very clearly. It was for Sunshine Bakers. [It] read 'We Bake While You Sleep!' It seemed to me the most sadistic thing in the world, because all I wanted to do was stay up & watch.'
Sendak: 'They are the same child, of course. Kenny is frustrated & introverted; Martin is fussy and sulking; Max is tremendously brave but in a rage and Mickey is extremely brave and very happy...In the characters, there is a kind of progress from holding back to coming forth'
Maurice Sendak (1970):
'I believe there's no part of our lives, our adult as well as child's life, when we're not fantasising, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young.'