art

Provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for drawing color pattern pictures.

Surveys seventeen works of art and examines the tricks artists use to make viewers see the art in different ways.

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.

An introduction to Renaissance art that covers events, procedures, ideas, and concepts.

This is a collection of jokes using familiar terms from art, music and performing arts, such as, "What is a dance for two containers called? The cancan.".

"In twelve-year-old Giacomo's Renaissance-inspired world, art is powerful, dangerous, and outlawed. Every artist possesses a Genius, a birdlike creature that is the living embodiment of an artist's creative spirit. Those caught with one face severe punishment, so when Giacomo discovers he has a Genius, he knows he's in big trouble"--.

After a boy learns some of the reasons a work of art might be in a museum - it's beautiful, different, makes people feel good - he asks the museum to exhibit a new piece: his grandma!.

After her parents get divorced, Emily finds comfort in making and learning about art.

Cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, has a talent for mocking, criticizing, and exposing the foolishness of modern culture. This talent has resulted in financial success, critical acclaim, and the longest-running show in television history. Matt Groening and the Simpsons provides an in-depth and often humorous look at Groening’s childhood, his rise to fame, and his success as one of the most honored animators in the world.

Introduces some of the major artists, writers, and composers that flourished in Europe and the United States during the Romantic era in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.