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GREAT AMERICAN ARTISTS FOR KIDS
HANDS-ON ART EXPERIENCES IN THE STYLES OF GREAT AMERICAN MASTERS |
| By: |
MaryAnn F. Kohl, Kim Solga |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£9.58 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0935607269 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780935607260 |
| Publisher: |
BRIGHT RING PUBLISHING,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2008 |
| Series: |
Bright Ideas for Learning (TM) 8 |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Synopsis: |
75 great American masters are introduced through open-ended quality art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography, full color artwork, and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more. Special art options for very young children are included. Many great artists will be familiar names, like Cassatt, Warhol, and O'Keeffe. Other names will be new to some, like Asawa, Smithson, and Magee. Each featured artist has a style that is interesting to children, with a life history that will entertain and inspire them.Sample of some of the artists and companion activities: Andy Warhol - Package Design Bev Doolittle - Camouflage Draw Dale Chihuly - Pool Spheres Maya Lin - Memorial Plaque Jasper Johns - Encaustic Flag Joseph Raffael - Shiny Diptych Roy Lichtenstein - Comic Sounds Thomas Jefferson - Clay Keystone Edward Hopper - Wash Over Grant Wood - Gothic Paste-Up Wolf Kahn - Layered Pastel Jackson Pollock - Great Action Art Mary Cassatt - Back-Draw Monoprint Louis Comfort Tiffany - Bright Windows Hans Hofmann - Energetic Color Blocks Rube Goldberg - Contraption Georgia O'Keeffe - Paint with Distance 2009 Moonbeam Children's Bronze Award 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award |
| Reader Age: |
From 2 to 12 years |
| US Grade: |
Up to Seventh Grade |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Bright Ring Publishing,U.S. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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