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Cocoa Beach Art Festival

Cocoa Beach Art Festival Student Division

The lovely faces of Adv. Art

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Maurice Sendak's work is influenced by many Walt Disney, Emily Dickinson, and Mozart. His work centers around cartoon like monsters and people with human like characters. His themes usually are about how children get through the day, lived and nonlived memories of family, culture, and the Holocaust (where he lost many relatives). His backgrounds and styles are often dark, night skies with sketch marks left to see.

Maurice Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his books WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN. Maurice has spent the past 50 years bringing life to a world of fantasy and imagination.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents. At an early age he developed health problems and was confined to his bed. Spending much of his life indoors, he turned to books at an early age. His view of the outside world was often limited to the family that came to visit him and the little that he could see from his window. The characters in his story often are memories of his family members.

His interest in becoming an illustrator came from Mickey Mouse cartoons and movies such as Fantasia. In his work Sendak remains in contact with the child within himself.

Sendak usually illustrates to music and strives for a musical quality in his work. At the core of his work he always has the same theme, how children get through the day, how they cope with emotional isolation, finding ways to deal with the issues of family and the Holocaust (where he lost a lot of his family).