This enchanting picture book includes pieces of artwork created by this little known artist who captured the truth and beauty of the world he saw around him. Between the Lines is a story of inspiration, spirit, and of an American original who pursued his dream. When it is remembered that this work is not only an educational classic of prime importance, but that it was the first picture-book ever made for children and was for a century the most popular text-book in Europe, and yet has been for many years unattainable on account of its rarity, the wonder is, not that it is reproduced now but that it has not been reproduced before. His work has influenced a generation of painters and illustrators and can be found in museums and collections, such as the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the California African American Museum. Would that day ever come? Ernie Barnes was one of the most important artists of his time known for his style of elongation and movement. Still, in his heart Ernie longed to paint. Ernie grew tall and athletic and became a football star. But in the segregated south, Ernie didn't know how to make a living as an artist. He would draw families walking home from church, or the old man on the sofa. Although spiritual matters received due attention in Comenius’s pictured world, his most famous book gave pride of place to worldly mattersgeography, weather, plants, animals, and machinery, among. And he never left home without a sketchbook. He recognized the impact of illustration on children’s understanding and believed that learning should build outward from the familiar. Even when he played as a boy with his friends he drew with a stick in the mud. When Ernie Barnes was growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s, he loved to draw. Ernie Barnes was an NFL football player who longed to make art. And thus the whole book being gone over by the bare titles of the pictures, reading cannot but be learned and indeed, too, without using any ordinary tedious spelling that most troublesome torture of wits. It was the first widely used children's textbook with pictures, published first in Latin and German and later republished in many European languages. Discover the remarkable true story of NFL star Ernie Barnes-a boy who followed his dreams and became one of the most influential artists of his generation. - The very looking upon the thing pictured suggesting the name of the thing will tell the child how the title of the picture is to be read. Orbis Pictus, or Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Visible World in Pictures), is a textbook for children written by Czech educator John Amos Comenius and published in 1658.
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