geometry in art

Presents fifty-one ideas of geometry, accompanied by over sixty plates of images, offered to display how mathematics and aesthetics can be united. Explores the history of the development of geometry as it is understood today.

This book demonstrates the various ways in which artists use shape in their drawings, including portraits, landscapes, and sculptures.

Presents objects with the shape of a heart, a triangle, a square and other shapes through paintings by such artists as Magritte, Escher, and Matisse.

Explains what shape is, different shapes in art, and how shape is used by artists.

Provides simple instructions for young children on drawing a dinosaur that teaches them about geometric shapes and colors.

Presents a children's book for early readers that teaches about different shapes by drawing a bird.

Showing readers how to put math to work in their day-to-day activities, this book describes 2-D shapes in paintings, sculptures, stained-glass windows, mosaics, and tangram art.

Explains what shape is, different shapes in art, and how shape is used by artists.