Dr. Seuss The Storytelling-How-Did-Storytelling

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XinyingWang (Elizabeth) December, 2016 1 HISTORY OF STORY- TELLING
The storytelling starts at the time when monkeys just come down from trees, and its history has lost in the mist of time. One common believe is that stories were used to calm the fears or doubts when it first came to exist. As time passes by, storytelling has developed and changed a lot.
• The earliest form of storytelling would probably be the cave painting discovered in Southern France that was done by local people between 15000 and 13,000 B.C. The painting was about a hunting scene in a ritual ceremony.
• The earliest original oral storytelling was found in the Egypt, where they are used to entertain the emperor.
• The epic of Gilgamesh, which was carved
Seuss’ real name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. He was born in march 2nd, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1925, Seuss publishes his first cartoon in Jack-O- lantern (a humour magazine) It was the first time he uses “Dr. Seuss” as his pen name. He then attended Oxford in 1926 and soon married Henry Palmer. In 1937, Seuss published his first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. In 1941, Seuss began his career as a political cartoonist. He has published over
400 cartoons in the New York newspaper PM in just a few years. During the World War II, he worked for the army at the Information and Education Division. After that, Geisel began focusing on children's books. He wrote some of the most popular children's book, those have been translated into over 20 languages. Theodor Seuss Geisel dies in La Jolla, California, on September 24th, 1991. DR. SEUSS
Grade 11 Visual Arts
Seuss is known for his children’s story book that is intriguing and educational. In his storybook, his creates a large group of cute characters, such as Flannel-wing Jay, Duck-dog, the Lorax. One of the most famous characters is the cat in the hat, a tall cat, who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. In his children books, he often employs vivid primary colors that grab eyes of kids.
Dr. Seuss was also influenced by surrealism, by the time he arrived in Paris in 1926. So his work at that time involved plenty of crazy creatures and imaginations With hard work and much effort, Dr. Seuss created a bunch of irrepressible work during his spare time that would redefine him as an iconographic American artist. These paintings exhibit a sophisticated, technically accomplished, and often quite unlimited side of his talent. Grade 11 Visual Arts Journal There’s so much to