art

Textbook designed to increase students' understanding of drawings created by others, while helping them gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to improve their own drawing efforts. Creatively integrates aesthetics, art history, and art criticism with studio techniques emphasizing a comprehensive approach to the study of drawing.

Includes broad coverage of painting, sculpture, and graphic art with entries on more thatn 1,000 artists; covers all major movements and styles of the 20th century; includes entries on art schools and galleries as well as collectors, critics, dealers, and patrons.

Discover how multifaceted artists, skilled as painters, sculptors, and architects, presented new ideas about perspective, harmony, and beauty.

Illustrated survey of Renaissance art in Europe during the 15th century.

Presents six works of art each of which tells a story using a different technique. Includes instructions for using these techniques to make one's own pictures and stories.

Provides inspiration for landscape painting by presenting the work of six different artists; then offers instructions for creating one's own work.

Presents six works of art each of which features an animal, has a different purpose, and uses a different technique.

Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.