Artist & Author Emanuel Paletz Launches IndieGoGo Campaign to Launch Alice in Wonderland for Ipad

NEW YORK - May 6, 2013 - PRLog -- NEW YORK, NY- FEBRUARY 6, 2013- Artist and Author, Emmanuel Paletz uniquely reimagines the Lewis Carroll classic, Alice in Wonderland by adding beautifully detailed, surreal paintings inspired by historical, political and philosophical elements of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance periods. Paletz’s Alice, as he deems it was designed specifically for Ipad and the official website thealiceforipad.com was launched in January. After a 4-year labor of love & art, Emmanuel has completed all of the illustrations, and is turning to crowdfunding to launch a campaign via IndieGoGo to promote and seek financial support to develop Alice into an application for IPad. The fundraising goal is $16,800.

Emmanuel Paletz’s Alice is to be enjoyed by all ages; however Paletz’s version of the beloved children’s book dually serves as a tool to teach children about art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Paletz promises that the app will ignite imaginations and stimulate minds. Paletz’s layered creation inspires thought and curiosity. Through Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Paletz has found a way to merge his loves of classic children’s literature and classic art. Readers will take away more than adventure in this IPad app; they will develop an appreciation for Renaissance art and new insights into history. Paletz pulls from historical events to make each illustration significant.  

To portray the colorful events and idiosyncratic characters of this book, Paletz incorporates pieces from renowned artists, such as Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Quentin Matsys, Hans Holbein, Sandro Botticelli, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch and more, integrating them into his signature visual collages. Alice is a book filled with riddles, puzzles, illogical delightfulness, and brainteasers, and during this 4-year project Paletz challenged himself to echo these ideas into a conceptual visual interpretation.

To learn more about the Alice IPad app, please visit http://www.thealiceforipad.com and for info on how you can contribute to Paletz’s Alice project, please visit http://www.indiegogo.com/thealice.

About Emmanuel Paletz      
Emmanuel Paletz is an internationally renowned and award-winning creative consultant for the advertising industry, having worked for the country's leading digital and direct marketing agencies. He is also the author of two very successful cookbooks, both of which have been praised by media outlets, including New York Times Magazine and The Washington Post. Paletz’s book Art and Cook was published by Rizzoli Publications, and subsequently led to him being commissioned to design an “Art and Cook” kitchen utensil line exclusively for Macy’s.