Imagine if you could just walk into the most famous paintings by the most famous painters (and one sculptor) and their colorful world would come to life all around you. So come on in! These are adventurous, poetic, exciting, and dreamy stories that you won't want to leave. You can touch Van Gogh's famous sunflowers, dance with Anri in Montmartre, Paris, or pull Shagi's flying bride down from the sky. This collection of fourteen stories for older children is inspired by paintings and their painters. The author of the last story, about sculpture, is Benjamín Číčel.

If we closed both eyes, we could imagine that there was no picture hanging on the wall, but rather a small window through which we could climb to the other side. Somewhere into a world bursting with colors, but surely also with beautiful smells and sounds. If we closed both eyes, we could touch famous sunflowers, dance in Montmartre in Paris, or pull a flying bride down from the sky. If we closed both eyes, we would find in this book colorful stories of painters (and one sculptor) who once really lived and created interesting things. And if we don't close our eyes, that's fine too. Then we can experience several nice adventures with children who are good with colors and shapes. And one day they will paint it all anyway.

The painting stories of Zuzana Mojžišová and the last sculpture of Benjamín Číčel are a collection of colorful stories full of magic, fantasy, but also quite ordinary human miracles. They are also adventurous, poetic, exciting, and dreamy stories that reflect not only the paintings, but also their painters.

Because once a person starts painting, they never paint only what they see with their eyes. Far from it! Some paint what they feel when they look at things or the landscape. Others paint what they dream. And still others paint what they see when they close their eyes. Some paint memories. Others paint ideas. Some paint things from a completely different world. And some even paint themselves. Every painting is different, every painting is original. And so are the stories in this book.

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