art appreciation

Introduces twenty-one paintings from museums around the world through picture puzzzles, and discusses various details of each painting.

Narrative text describes the artist's paintings and their portrayal of the lives of her African American relatives in the rural American South.

A two volume set containing information on various artists' careers and works. Includes essays about their works with an explanation of the work and the style of the artist.

Presents a history of world art from cave paintings to present day through seventy tales about artists and the way they created their work.

Puffer flies to the south of France to visit with Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and includes actual art images of some of the famous artist's works.

Puffer flies into early twentieth-century Paris to meet artist Henri Rousseau where he discovers the origins of Rousseau's artistic ideas, and includes representations of six of the artist's works.

A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.

Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyses some of his paintings.

Profiles thirteen female artists, including Sofonisba Anguissola, Maria Sibylla Merian, Mary Cassatt, Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lyubov Popova, Tamara de Lempicka, Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Niki de Saint Phalle, Bridget Riley, and Cindy Sherman, providing time lines, text, and illustrations that introduce each woman's life and work.

Presents information about thirteen famous artists who lived and worked in the latter part of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century. Provides color reproductions of some of their most famous works of art and describes the style of art that they are associated with. Includes a timeline, photos of the artists, and a glossary of terms.