art

Uses text and exemplary works to chronicle the history of Western art.

Presents an introduction to colors, providing a collection of crafts and activities for learning about primary and secondary colors.

Directions for things that can be made outdoors such as effigies, cages, mosaics, musical instruments, mud art, and ice molds.

Describes and illustrates a variety of painting techniques, including wax and paint, stencilling, glass painting, and face painting.

Examines how artists in different historical and cultural contexts have portrayed their physical environments.

Text and color illustrations present sixteenth-century Italian artist Michelangelo's life, times, works, and influence.

Presents an art reference, featuring facts about fakes and forgeries, art history and appreciation, applied design and fine crafts, museums, prints and drawings, paintings and painters, sculpture, architecture, photography, art from various cultures, and naive, folk, and outsider art.

An overview of trends in the visual arts in America, in the context of popular culture, from the twentieth century until today.

Contains fifty easy-to-use activities and projects for art, science, math, language arts, social studies, and music designed to encourage creativity in the fifth through nineth grade classroom and provides assessment strategies and teaching objectives.