Product Description
These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks–Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories–via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, is currently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, a developmentally based education research organization. He has also been affiliated with education programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In Shapes Yenawine asks questions like, “Can you find buildings? And roofs?” while looking at a Picasso study. Other Shapes artists include Seurat, Gauguin, Malevich, Mondrian, Arp, Klee, Smith and Dali. Colors looks at Monet, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Albers, Stella and Johns, among others. Places includes 21 artworks by artists such as Hopper, Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard, while People highlights works by Balthus, Degas, Freud, Cezanne, Neel and Rivera. Lines features 16 works by van Gogh, Matisse, Pollock, Morandi, O’Keeffe and others. And Stories includes Chagall, Wyeth, Lichtenstein, Dubuffet, Shahn, Moore and Magritte. Each volume comes with an illustrated summary of artworks.
(From book)
Discusses forms in paintings, from recognizable ones to geometric and abstract ones, showing how different shapes elicit a variety of responses
This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art.
This book isolates shapes to show how they are used by artists and how they contribute to meaning in art
By looking at shapes and discussing what ideas and feelings they suggest, adults encourage children to develop creative thinking skills
At the back of this book, there is more information about the pictures included to help in this engaging process
Enjoy looking together!
Rated 5 / 5