art

Presents examples of artworks, including paintings and sculptures, and explains the effects of certain artistic elements and techniques on the viewer, including lines, texture, patterns, shapes, perspective, movement, and depth.

Art from Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas.

Art, science, and mathematics.

Contains forty art activities that incorporate the seven elements of art design.

Offers a variety of art projects that develop an awareness of the environment using materials collected from nature or saved from the trashbin.

"From September to June, now you can provide motivating art projects that students will enjoy and parents will treasure. There are forty unique cut-and-paste, color-and-trace activities related to the months, holidays, and seasons, in this exciting, new resource - a sequel to our very popular Hands of a Child." - back cover.

A movie aabout how to see, what to see, or what we think we see. It opens in a special effects studio in Hollywood. This setting underscores the fact that the extraordinary special effects we are accustomed to seeing today are based on principles established more than 500 years ago by Renaissance masters.This film focuses on the discovery of perspective and the development of visual tools that create the magic of illusion.

An exploration of painting through 2000 years of art history, focusing on self-portraits by such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Gorky, and Picasso.