Create your own art in the style of the great masters by following the easy-to-follow instructions in the children's art book, Discovering Great Artists.
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Mary A. Kohl, Kim Solga
Bright Ring Publishing
Rebecca van Slyke
Softcover
11 x 8 1/2 inches
142
0-935607-09-9
1997
4 - 12
1
$ 18.95
$ 12.04
Recognitions:
Practical Home Schooling 2002 Reader Awards
Why You Will Like This Book
If you could select only one book that includes information about and biographies of artists
and also offers hands-on art project instructions,
Discovering Great Artists by MaryAnn Kohl would be your chosen selection.
Children from ages 4 – 12 (or into adulthood) can find a personally pleasing art project within these pages.
There are icons with each project indicating the degree of involvement and planning time for the
adult in charge and other icons suggesting the level of art experience needed for a given project.
Other icons indicate what art medium or technique is utilized and what artist style is represented.
MaryAnn Kohl was very thorough in her layout of this book, making it extremely easy
for parents (or teachers) to use.
Synopsis
Discovering Great Artists is a collection of the biographies of and hands-on art for children in the style of approximately 80 visual artists including Renoir, Raphael, Degas, Seurat, Escher, Homer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Matisse, Dali, Rockwell, Klee, and many more. Within its pages are suggested art project for home school teachers and parents.
Description
--a great book for home schooling parents or any parent wishing to increase a child’s knowledge of art and of artists. This is hands-on Art. Children are given full instructions on how to create a design in the style of a great master. The book highlights artists from the Renaissance and Post Renaissance through the 20th century. Artists represented are Michelangelo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Monet, Homer, Van Gogh, Rodin, Gauguin, Matisse, Calder, Picasso, Chagall, Dali, Grandma Moses, Rockwell, Wyeth, Warhol, Wright, and many more. Besides offering a wide variety of hands-on projects (110 unique child-tested activities) and biographies of the artists, there is a section called “Make It & Play It”—games and activities to create. The final chapter is a resource guide that contains a section of “great art words”, “great art materials”, “great art styles”, “great art techniques”, and “great artist birthdays”.
What others said about this book
"Discovering Great Artists offers children hands-on activities to explore the styles and techniques of the world’s greatest artists...encourages children to learn by doing, to become familiar with new ideas...encourages children to expand their knowledge." Ms. Kohl
