A review by satyridae
How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird by Jacques Prévert, Mordicai Gerstein

2.0

I appear to be the sole dissenting voice on GoodReads with regard to How To Paint The Portrait Of A Bird. This book failed to move me. I didn't love the modern, scrawly illustrations by Gerstein. I didn't even like them- except for the bird. The bird bordered on the transcendent, especially in a face-on page where its wings described a pure and glorious arc. But the bird appeared to be in the wrong milieu to my eye.

I did not find that it echoed the creative process, at least not the creative process as this artist knows it. Clearly, my mileage varies from the norm here. It simply failed to work for me.