Artists have so many clever ways of showing you new and different ways of seeing. How do they show high speed movement? What do they do to create 3D effects? How do they create portraits whose eyes f
How a line is drawn is often the first lesson a child learns about drawing. But how have the world’s great artists used lines to represent emotions, actions, or important issues? In this entertaining and educational book, award-winning art historian and children’s author Gillian Wolfe explores paintings with disappearing lines, hidden lines, solid lines, facial lines, and many other lines. Questions within the text encourage readers to examine each work more closely and to think about the artist’s techniques and intentions. The paintings represent a wide range of periods and cultures and include works by Picasso, Winslow Homer, Bernard Perlin, and Vincent van Gogh.
This informative, interactive book invites children to look up, down, outside, inside, close up, and all around 18 different paintings. Questions and activities on each page encourage focused viewing. For example, “Look Behind” features two paintings, Crespi's The Scullery Maid and Hogarth’s The Graham Children. For the former, the book asks, “What do you think will happen next?” and for the latter, “How would their lives have been different?” Works from the Renaissance to the present day are represented, and subjects include trapeze artists, clowns, trains, animals, and children. Biographical information about the artists and where to view the original paintings is included.
In this fun and accessible book, children learn to develop their ability to “see” art in new ways. Each spread features a different painting and focuses on a different perspective —
Beautifully printed on fine, glossy paper, this book introduces young readers to the enduring pleasures of art by showing how its makers use light. Author Gillian Wolfe draws on famous artists from v
The fifth book in an innovative series by the distinguished Director of Learning and Public Affairs at the world-renowned Dulwich Picture Gallery introduces children to visual tricks of the trade in a
This exciting addition to a highly acclaimed series of art titles focuses on how artists use light in their paintings. Showcasing some of the most famous and best-loved artists of all time, the book
