An eye for art : focusing on great artists and their work.
2013
Book
An introduction to the artworks collected in the National Gallery of Art, featuring updated, revised, and expanded articles from Inside scoop, the Gallery's quarterly children's publication. Includes brief biographies and selective insights into the lives and works of over 50 artists from the 13th to the 21st centuries, arranged stylistically into seven categories. Also invites readers to use the masters' techniques to make their own art and to engage in a variety of meaningful creative thinking and writing activities.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781613748978
- 1613748973
Edition: First edition.
Description: 177 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Target Audience Note: Ages 7 and up.
Other Title: Essays. Selections.
Notes: "Presented by the National Gallery of Art."
Contents:
- Studying nature: John Constable ; Martin Johnson Heade ; Claude Monet ; Georgia O'Keeffe ; Andy Goldsworthy
- Exploring places: Rembrandt van Rijn ; Canaletto ; Jasper Francis Cropsey ; Thomas Moran ; Henri Matisse ; André Derain ; George Bellows
- Examining portraits: Leonardo da Vinci ; Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun ; Vincent van Gogh ; Paul Gauguin; Chuck Close
- Telling stories: Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi ; Rogier van der Weyden ; Raphael ; Peter Paul Rubens ; John Singleton Copley ; Augustus Saint-Gaudens ; Jacob Lawrence
- Observing everyday life: Jan Steen ; Osias Beert the Elder ; Willem Claesz Heda ; Édouard Manet ; Mary Cassatt ; Winslow Homer ; Wayne Thiebaud
- Questioning traditions : Giuseppe Arcimboldo ; Johannes Vermeer ; Joseph Mallord William Turner ; Pablo Picasso ; Joan Miró ; Diego Rivera ; Romare Bearden ; Jackson Pollock ; Roy Lichtenstein
- Playing with space: Edgar Degas ; Alexander Calder ; Dan Flavin ; Martin Puryear
- Timeline of artists.
LCCN: 2013009403
Control Number: 959700
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2013]Subjects: