YEREVAN, APRIL 17, ARMENPRESS: British Council Armenia has said today it is opening the Magic Pencil facsimile exhibition on April 23 at Khnko Apor children’s library. This new British Council Touring exhibition has been selected by the celebrated children’s author and illustrator, Quentin Blake.
Many of the artists included in the show are so familiar as to be almost household names – Quentin Blake himself, Raymond Briggs, Tony Ross, John Burningham and Michael Foreman.
Some of the illustrations deal with subjects not often considered the stuff of children’s books. Michael Foreman’s War Boy, for example, records the artist’s experiences of growing up in Suffolk during the Second World War.
Britain has a celebrated history of innovative book design and illustration and the works of earlier generations are known and loved worldwide. For many, the illustrations to Alice in Wonderland, Peter Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh were their first introduction to British culture. Magic Pencil shows how today’s illustrators reflect contemporary concerns with equal force and originality; and how their work incontestably establishes this as a second golden age of British illustration.
The exhibition features 60 facsimile prints of original artworks by 13 of Britain’s most accomplished and celebrated illustrators today.
A competition between children (aged 7 to 15) will be organized on April 23 at Khnko Apor children’s library to coincide with the exhibition. About 60 children from over 20 Yerevan schools (schools were selected by random sampling) will draw illustrations for an Armenian fairy tale or a fable. The winners will receive books of Fairy tales or stories in English as a prize.
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